 The Palatines had expected to meet male sachems rather than these women, but property and descent were passed through the maternal lines.A report in 1718 placed 224 families of 1,021 persons along the Hudson River while 170 families of 580 persons were in the Schoharie valley.In 1723, under Governor Burnet, 100 heads of families from the work camps were settled on each in the Burnetsfield Patent midway in the Mohawk River Valley, just west of Little Falls.