The portage at this place between the Mohawk river and Wood Creek, which are about 1 m.
In 1796 a canal was built across the old portage between Wood Creek and the Mohawk river.
As a reward for his services the king granted him a tract of 10o,000 acres of land north of the Mohawk river.
A project adopted by the state for the enlargement of the Erie provides for a new route up the Hudson from Troy to Waterford and thence to the Mohawk river above Cohoes Falls.
For some years after the completion of the Erie Canal, Schenectady, which had formerly been an important depot of the Mohawk river boat trade to the westward, suffered a decline.
