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After 1700, Dutch settlement pushed westward from Schenectady as an expanding population needed more space. William Johnson settled on the south bank of the river in 1738 and soon rose to prominence as Indian Agent for the British Crown. He encouraged Scots immigrants to locate on his lands to the west of here.
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