New York's new governor keeps his word,…

New York's new governor keeps his word, and in 1847 the “Calico Indians” are cleared of all charges and the system of feudal tenures abolished.

The profits and protections of New York's feudal land system thus destroyed, most farmers of the Catskill region will gain possession of the land they had built their homes and farms upon by buying it from their landlords during the next decade.