Excerpt from The Days of Old: A Fortieth Anniversary Historical Discourse on the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church, of Kinderhook, N. Y., Preached June 5, 1904 This is true as regards the community, the nation and the Christian Church as a whole, and also as regards any local church like this, whose history covers the years of many generations. And when, as never before in the two hundred and sixty years since Kinderhook was settled, there occurs the fortieth anniversary of one pastorate, it seems fitting that we not only record our gratitude to the Head of the Church, but also give special heed to the counsel of the text. Kinderhook means children's corner. It is a beautiful name, given, tradition alleges, by a Holland shipmaster sailing up the Hudson, because of the Indian children seen on a point jutting out into the river. On the earliest maps the name is given to a tract of about four miles along the river and thence extend ing easterly about eight miles. It thus included the whole of Stuyvesant, and parts of Stockport, Ghent and Chatham, as well as the present township of Kinderhook. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.