This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/VRB.2ACE/1822.1 Message Board Post: Run to the County clerk's in Hudson & look up the deeds. You can follow from present through the past.Though "Abstracts" are sometimes difficult to understand as they do leave out information. Also try incorporation index..I find lots of interesting information in 2 books labeled miscellaneous. here in the County clerk's . Tax map office also can show you what they have. Could that have been a factory where they made plows? In French's Historical Gazetteer of NY c 1860 Taghkanick was formed from Livingston as "Granger" 1803.