The Anti-Rent Rebellion that had begun in…

The Anti-Rent Rebellion that had begun in earnest in 1841 has continued throughout the nine New York counties of the Catskills and Hudson River Valley.

Early in 1845, the legislature passes an act making it a misdemeanor for anyone to disguise himself as an “Indian” and proclaims it a duty for the officials to arrest all such.

After the defeat of petitions for an anti-rent bill put before the New York State legislature in 1845, quasi-guerrilla warfare resumes in the backcountry between bands of calico-clad ”Indians” and sheriff's posses.