 After the war, the confederation broke apart, and many of the surviving Wappinger left their native lands for the protection of neighboring tribes, settling in particular in the "prayer town" Stockbridge, Massachusetts in the western part of the colony, where Natives had settled who had converted to Christianity.In 1765, the remaining Wappinger in Dutchess County sued the Philipse family for control of the Philipse Patent land but lost.In the aftermath the Philipses raised rents on the European-American tenant farmers, sparking colonist riots across the region.