 There had been no good survey, and no one knew where the boundaries of the patent lay, much less any subdivisions.Indian tribes upset that rivals had sold their land out from under them and squatters who had moved into the area before sabotaged the Wooster brothers' attempts at a first real survey of the region in the 1740s.In his later years Hardenbergh was helped greatly by Robert Livingston, who saw the region's economic potential and would acquire of the Hardenbergh Patent.