Y., iii, 617), and also as "Lying to the east of Major Abraham's patent of Claverack." ^ Specifically, in a caveat filed by John Van * Kinderhook is an anglicism of Dutch Kinder-hoek, meaning, literally, " Children's point, angle or corner." It dates from the Carte Figurative of 1614-16, and hence is one of the oldest names on Hudson's River. It is supposed to have been applied from a gathering of Indian children on a point of land to gaze upon the ship of the early navigator. It could not have been a Dutch substitute for an Indian name. It is pure Dutch. It was not an inland name. The navigator of 1614-16 did not explore the country.

or "reach, Claverack -- Dutch, so called from Claverrak -- literally, three bare or open "Clover reachappear fields which -- a sailing on thecourse land, a fancied resemblance to trefoil or three-leaved clover," wrote Jasper Dankers and Peter Sluj^ter in their Journal in 1679-80. Presumably the places are specifically located in the patent to Jan Frans van Heusen, May, 1667, on which the city of Hudson now stands, which is described as "A tract of land which takes in three of the Ciavers on the south." From the locative the reach extended some miles north and south and to lands which it bounded. It is still preserved as the name of a creek, a town and a village. Of record it dates back to De Laet's map of 1625-6, and is obviously much older. It is possible that the " three bare places " were fields of white clover, as has been claimed by one writer, but there is no record stating that fact. Dankers and Sluyter, who wrote only fifty-four years after the application of the name, no doubt gave correctly the account of its origin as it was related to them by living witnesses.