Editing Hillsdale, New York (section)

== History ==
Much of what would become the town of Hillsdale was part of the [[Manor of Rensselaerswyck]]. Due to overlapping boundary lines, portions of the eastern part were claimed by the Province of Massachusetts.  Kakeout was established by settlers from New England who raised sheep.<ref name=parmet>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110811083448/http://hillsdaleny.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/HillsdaleHistory.cwk-WP.pdf Parmet, Herbert S., "Hillsdale, A History"]</ref> Around 1745, Martin Krum is reported to have purchased 800 acres in the western portion of the town from the [[Van Rensselaer (family)|Van Rensselaer family]]. Robert Noble and his associates procured the Indian title to land about five miles square in the eastern part and called it Nobletown. The Van Resselaers and the Livingstons leased land on their vast estates to tenant farmers, but those who had emigrated from Massachusetts did not recognized the landlords' titles. The dispute was not settled until 1773.

In 1776 [[Henry Knox]] passed through Hillsdale while transporting cannons from [[Albany, New York]], to aid the Continentals in the [[siege of Boston]]. Two markers are posted in Hillsdale along the [[Henry Knox Trail]].{{citation needed|date=March 2023}}

This territory was taken from the town of [[Claverack, New York|Claverack]] in 1782.<ref name=parmet/> The Columbia Turnpike was chartered by the state legislature in 1799. The road ran from the Massachusetts state line to the Hudson River port of Hudson as a way to bring farm produce, especially wool, rye, and wheat from the farm communities downriver to New York City. Revenues from tolls covered construction and maintenance. The East Gate tollhouse was located in Hillsdale. In 2016, it was listed in the National Register of Historic Places.<ref>[https://www.friendsofeastgate.org/history "East Gate in Context", Friends of East Gate]</ref>

The [[Dr. Joseph P. Dorr House]] and [[Pine View Farm]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris 2010a">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>