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Drummer, Martin Ree.
PRIVATES .- Andrew Miller, William Muller, Jacob Muller, Samuel Miller, John Miller, Adam Wagoner, John Esselstyn, Jacob Ilough- taling, Abraham Esselstyn, Thomas Whiting, John Coons, George Finkle, Jr., William Clapper, Martin Houghtaling, Frederick Helle- kas, John Mellekns, Martin Van Deusen, Abram Van Deusco, Harmon Jacobs, William Rodman, Frederick Bonesteel, Hendrick Kelder, Thomas Kelder, Heury Proper, Carlogh Stolp, Jr., Peter Stuffle- been, Henry Stufflebeen, William Philip, Jr., Peter Stolp, Andrew Bamhover, Barent Lyek, Abram Honghtaling, Jacob Semon, Jeremiah Smith, Martin Crom, Frederick Fell, Conrat Schont, George Philip, Jacob Shufelt, HI. William Shufelt, Peter Shufelt, John Thurtin, Jacob Deney, Nicholas Deney, George Hener, Christian Ree, Henry Hener, Peter Hener, Peter Bortle, Jacob Best, Henry Bonesteel, Wil-
liam Dierik, John Loot, Elisha Demmens, Wm. Semon, Henry Semon, Jeremiah C. Muller, Jerry Embrigh, John Demmons, Peter Stever.
CAPTAIN THOMAS STORM'S COMPANY.
Captain, Thomas Storm.
First lieutenant, Peter Loop.
Second lientenant, Isaac J. Vosburgh.
Ensign, Isaac Spoor.
Sergeants, Gersbom Darling, Robert Rorabagh, Bartholomew Heath, Samuel Coon.
Corporals, Nathaniel Frisly, Andrew Cool, Thomas Robbios, An- drew Schermerhorn.
Clerk, Evert Heermance.
Drummer, Daniel Kelley.
PRIVATES .- Gilbert Turner, Barent Van Densen, Jacob Heermance, Jr., Ebenezer Culver, Peter Vosburgh, Peter R. Ludlow, John Hager- man, Charles Boice, Isaac Chase, George Kilmer, Henry Kilmer, Jonathan Rudd, Henry Chrisler, John Loop, William Luyeks, Nich- olas Luyeks, John Rorabigh, Peter Sisson, William Moor, Henry Rorabagh, Anthony Bever, Direk Miller, Jr., William Miller, Jr., Isaac Grimes, Philip Bureh, John Smith, John White, William White, Jr., John White, Jr., Peter White, Israel Walker, Andrew Brasie, Samuel Warner, John Warner, Richard Warner, Gideon Walker, Nicholas Sherts, Aaron Pixley, Jacob Darling, Abram Rees, Philip Rees, Ephraim Witbeek, Cornelius Witbeek, Henry Witheck, John Ronie, Elisha Pixley, George Alsburg, Gilbert Decker, Jan Hallenbeck, Michael Hallenbeck, William Hallenbeck, Samuel Hal- lenbeek, Nicholas Hallenbeck, Clark Pixley, Thomas Rorabagh, Joseph Boiee, Michael Ray, Henry Cline, George Sisson, John Me- Farling, Jonah Pixley, Cornelius H. Brent, Cornelius McCarter, Joseph Morehouse.
CAPTAIN WILLIAM VAN ALSTYN'S COMPANY.
Captain, William Van Alstyn.
First lieutenant, Joho Upham.
Second lieutenant, Jeremiah Miller.
Ensign, A. B. Bacon.
Clerk, Tobias Legget.
Sergeants, Peter Van Valkenburg, Frederick Moul, Roeloff Van De Karr, Lawrence Hogeboom.
Corporals, Jacob Philip, Peter Dingman, Jurrien Yator, Wm. Wood. Drummer, Michael Lusk.
PRIVATES .- William Martin, Hendrick Van De Karr, Arent Vau De Karr, Ezekiel Benewie, Peter Helm, Hendrick Shever, Johannes Van De Karr, Derick Van De Karr, Johannes Van De Karr, Jr., Feyt Miesick, Johannes Miesiek, Thomas Miesiek, Hendriek Miesick, Johannes Miesiek, Jr., Jacob Vosburgh, Martin Vosburgh, Peter Vos- burgh, Jacobus Legget, Jonathan Smith, J. A. Smith, Johannes Dingman, Hendriek Skinkle, Jacob Dingman, Andries Dingman, Jurrien Van Valkenburgh, IIans Van Valkenburgh, Wilmelmus Philip, Charles Smith, Johannes Traver, Jacob Cole, Cornelius Hoge- boom, Lawrenec Scherp, Peter Scherp, Andries Witbeck, Peter Conyn, Benjamin Newkirk, Johannes Hogeboom, Barent Wneger, David Saeger, Michael Saeger, Johannes Foos, Nicholas Great, Jerome Groat, Jacobus Groat, John Mandigo, John Rossman, David Foot, Michnel Foot, Frederick Martin.
LIEUTENANT HENDRICK VAN HOESEN'S COMPANY.
First lieutenant, Hendrick Van Hoesen.
Second lieutenant, Francis Hardick, Jr.
Ensign, Samuel Ten Broeek.
Sergeants, Garret Van Hoesen, Abraham E. Van Alen, Justus Van Hoesen, Justus Folk hamer.
PRIVATES .- Garret Hardiek, Justus Hardiek, Leonard Hardick, Jonathan Hardick, John Hardick, Jacob F. Van Doesen, Daniel Young, Jacob Hardiek, Jr., Peter Beeker, Cornelius Beeker, Peter Hardick, John Nicholas Van Hoesen, William Van Hoesen, Cornelius Van Hoesen, Jr., Jacob John Van Hoesen, John Jacob Van Hoesen, John Becker, John Johannes Van Densen, Isane Morey, Jobn Ilar- diek, Jr., David Williams, Abel Broekway, Lneas Salshury, Nicholas Van Hoesen, Benjamin Harder, William Cockren, Alexander Patter- son, Timothy Allen, Robert Coventry, John Holmes, John Van Sals- burgh, Mathias Hoes, Michael Harder, Jr., Peter Harder, John Folk- humer, Andrew Bowman, Johounes Smith, Peter Smith, Johannes
* Promoted afterwards to major.
See fac-simile of his major's commission, on opposite page.
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and Loua Loyalty, us in your latour and Readiness todo us good good and faithful Service: Have appointed and constituted and by these Presents DO appoint and Constitute you the sais Richard Opels ty ndecould Major of the Chegiment of Militair. the ben County Hallbody where Robert Van hemfelse Q Aquire is Colonel
You are therefore to take the saidthegiment into your change and care as Leund Mal thereef and duly le exercise the Officers and Soldiers of that Regiment in Arms, who are hereby commanded to obey you as their Jecon! and you are also to Observe and follow such Orders and Directionsasvoush ons asyoushall from from time to time receive from our General and Commander in chief of the Militia of our saus sand State, orany other your Superior Officer. accor ding to the Rules and dicipline of War in pursuance ce of the Trust reposed in you and for sodoing this shallbe Your Commission for and during our your pleasure tobe Signified by our
Your CouncilofappointmentInTestimony whereof, we have caused our Seal for Military Commissions tobe hereunto Ifwe Witness our Trusty and wet beloved George Clinton Esquire our Governor of our State of New York, General and Commander in chief of all the Militia and Admiral of the Navy of the same by and with the advice and Consent ofour said Council of Appointment at Cough keepsie. The Twenty ofthe day of February in the Second
year ofour Independence and in the year ofour Ford one Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy Eight Pafsed the Secretary's Office June 19." 170
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Peter Smith, Hendrick Diogman, Andreas Diogman, Adolphus Ding- man, Tuois Smith, Thomas Patrick, Johannes Miller, Jr., Abraham A. Van Alen, Jacob L. Winegart, Killian Van Rensselaer, Peter Van Rensselaer, John Miller, William Heory Ludlow, Henry H. Ludlow, Leonard Ten Broek, Christopher Witmore, Jeremiah Adam Smith, Johannes Dingman, Cornelius Fonda.
CAPTAIN JEREMIAH C. MILLER'S COMPANY.
Captain, Jeremiah C. Miller. First lieutenant, William Van Ness. Secend lieutenant, Hendrick Miller. Clerk, Christophel Miller.
Sergeants, David Brewer, Hendrick Sholts, Jobn Edmunds.
PRIVATES .- Peter Wisner, Peter Groat, David Hoffman, Darby Nuoan, Hendrick Miesick, Jr., William Mickle, Adam Herder, Luke Bowman, Stephen C. Miller, Jr., Jacob Harder, Brower Decker, Hendrick Graat, Christian Haver, Christian Haver, Jr., Nicholas Stupplebeem, John Jerry Covel, Nicholas Simon, Wynaart Mantle, Johannes Holsapple, Johannes Moul, Cornelius J. Miller, Hendrick Philip, Peter Philip, Felta Stopplebeem, Helmas Ostrander, Jacob Conklin, John Rowe, Frederick Lant, George Lot, Bartholomew Vao Valkenburgh, John C. Ten Broek, Philip Holsapple, Justus Brockway, Derick Russell, Abram I. Vun Valkenburgh, Lawrence Laut, Jeremiah Lant, Mathins Embrigh, Francis Embrigh, Adam Embrigh, Hendrick Snyder, George Embrigh, John P. Van Salis- bergh, John Scott, Jr., Stephen S. Miller, Jeremiah Miller, George Cadman, Isaac Lanfear, Christopher Gerneright, Leonard Van Hoesen, Nicholas Miller, William Holsapple, John G. Vought, Jacob Sharp, Godfrey Schoomaker, Urquehel Hyser, Alexander McLean, William Rowe, John Cooklin.
Another of the companies in this regiment was com- manded by Capt. John Mckinstry, of Livingston, who fought bravely at the battle of the Cedars, on the St. Lawrence river, May 19, 1776, on which occasion he was captured by the Indians under the famous Thayendanega, or Captain Brant. The Indians having taken Capt. Me- Kinstry, were preparing to murder him by torture, when, having heard that Brant was a Freemason, he bethought himself to give the hailing signal of distress, which the red chieftain recognized, and at once saved and liberated the captive. From that time Brant and Capt. Mckinstry were fast friends during life. It is related that whenever afterwards the former came as near as Albany, he never failed to visit the man whose life he had saved, and that in 1805 he, with Capt. (then Colonel) Mckinstry, visited the Masonic lodge in Hudson, where he was handsomely re- ceived, and was an object of great curiosity.
The following is an abstract of the commissioned and non-commissioned officers and soldiers belonging to Capt. John Mckinstry's company in the Fifteenth Regiment, commanded by Col. John Patterson, for the month of Sep- tember, 1776, which is undoubtedly nearly identical with the company which he commanded at the Cedars, viz. :
Captain, John Mckinstry. First lieutenant, Thomas Mckinstry.
Second lieutenant, John Pennoyer.
Ensign, Gerard Fitch.
Sergennts, William Cheney, William Pike, Othniel Phelps, Jesse Hollister, William Roberts.
Corporals, Prosper Polley, John Brown, Samuel Utley, William Roberts, Joel Phelps.
Drummer, Abraham Ackley.
PRIVATES .- Joel Phelps, Isnuc Welch, Mattbew Hatch, Jonathan Dunham, Stephen Gregory, John Spencer, Mabra Evins, William Benoett, David Forbes, Malachi Gates, Michael Murray, Samuel Horsford, William Hatch, Isaac Doty, John Stewart, John Limmen, John Connolly, Isaiah Jurdin, Oliver Fletcher, Elihu Parker, Daniel Willer, Josiah Cleveland, Charles Sheffield, David Hunt, Thomas
Kinion, Elijah Hatch, Asa Crawfoot, James flateb, Abel Buck, Jehn Blair, Francis Basherow, Zachariah Newton, David Fletcher, James Russ, David Shepherd, David Webb. Morris Roach, Benjamin Wig- gins, Joseph Robbins, Michael Willson, William Brisie, Solomon Alexander, Daniel Pathin, Benjamin Graves, John Bentley, William F. Jerts, Jonathan Tillison, Daniel Gray, John Scott, James Coven- try, Joseph Hollister, Daniel Avery, Amos Penooyer.
Capt. Mckinstry also served in the campaign on the Mohawk, under Colonel Robert Van Rensselaer, of Clav- erack. During this service, while the command was march- ing to the relief of Fort Brown, which was invested and in most imminent danger, the captain took occasion to re- monstrate with Colonel Van Rensselaer, on account of the very slow progress which they were making, assuring him that the people at the fort would be overpowered and mas- sacred if they did not reach them soon, and that they were wasting time which was of priceless value. The colonel, instead of heeding Mckinstry's protest, deliberately gave the order to halt for dinner, upon which the brave captain passionately broke his sword before the colonel's eyes, saying that under such a commander he had no need of a weapon. Whether he was placed in arrest for this insubordination and insult or not we have no account.
Below is given a copy of the " Declaration of the officers of the Regiment of Hillsdale," dated " Claverack District, County of Albany, November 17, 1775," with the names of officers of six companies, as follows :
"We, the subscribers, the officers of the Ninth regimeot, in the county of Albany and Colony of New York, do hereby promise and Engage, under all the lies of religion, honor, and regard le our Ceun- try, that we will respectively duly observe and carry into Execution to the utmost of our power all and every the orders, Rules, and recom- mendatiens made, er to be made, by the Continental Congress and the Congress or Convention of this Colony ; that we will also give, in our respective ranks, due obedience to the regulations by them established for the forming of the militia in the Colony, as also due obedience te such officers who either by rank or Superiority are placed above us, in such order as is directed by the said Continental or Provincial Congress.
" Colonell, Peter Van Ness.
" Lieutenant-Colonell, Stephen Hogeboom.
" First Major, Jacob Ford.
"Second Major, David Pratt.
" Adjutant, Bartholomew Heath.
" Captain Ist Company, Philip Bartle.
" First Lieutenant, Cornelius Hogeboom.
"Second Lieutenant, Elias Deloog.
" Ensigns, - Ray ; Francis Deleng, Oct. 20, 1776.
" Secood Lieutenant, Benjamin Alleo, Jan. 24, 1777.
"Captain 2d Company, Ithamar Spencer.
"First Lieutenant, Abner Hanley.
"Second Lieutenant, Jennthan Pitcher, Oct. 20, 1776.
" Ensign, Amaziah Phillips.
"Captain 3d Company, Jonah Graves.
" First Lieutenant, Charles McArthur.
"Second Lieutenant, William Fickoer.
" Ensigo, Stephen Graves, Oct. 20, 1776.
" Captain 4th Company, Bartholomew Barrett, Oct. 21, 1776.
" First Lieutenant, Abner Kellogg, Oct. 21, 1776.
"Second Lieutenant, Daniel Boons, Oct. 21, 1776.
" Ensign, Reswell Lee, Oct. 21, 1776.
"Captain 5th Company, Jonathan Bixby, Dee. 2, 1776.
" First Lieutenant, Abel Whalen, Dec. 2, 1776.
"Secood Lieutenant, Joseph Heath, Dec. 2, 1776.
" Ensigo, Abram Bliss, Oct. 20, 1776.
" Captain 6th Company, Nathaniel House, Dec. 10, 1776.
" First Lieutenant, Joshua Whitney, Dec. 10, 1776.
"Second Lieutenant, David Mckinstry, Jan. 24, 1777.
" Ensigo, Johannis J. Van Valkenburgh."
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The later dates set against the names of some of the officers lead to the belief that the regiment was not com- pleted and organized until the autumn of 1776. We are told in a general way that they served in the Mohawk country, but it is believed that a part of the command at least was with Gates' army at Saratoga. A full company was in the service in 1777 under Capt. Tiel Rockefeller, of Germantown, and also a company of nine months' men under Capt. Lothrop Allen.
Dr. Moses Younglove, then of the eastern part of the county, but afterwards of the city of Hudson, was in the service as brigade-surgeon under General Herkimer in the Mohawk valley, and was present at the battle of Oriskany, where he was made prisoner by an Indian, and received harsh usage during his captivity, as appears from an affi- davit made by him some months later before the Albany county committee,-John Barclay, chairman,-in which he deposed and said, "that being in the battle of said militia, above Oriskany, on the 6th of August last (1777), toward the close of said battle he surrendered himself a prisoner to a savage, who immediately gave him up to a sergeant of Sir John Johnson's regiment ; soon after which a lieutenant in the Indian department came up in company with several other Tories, when said Mr. Grinnis by name drew his tomahawk at this deponent, and with a deal of persuasion was hardly prevailed on to save his life. He then plundered him of his watch, buckles, spurs, etc. ; and other Tories following his example stripped him almost naked, with a great many threats while they were stripping, and massacreing prisoners on every side. That this de- ponent, on being brought before Mr. Butler, Senr., who demanded of him what he was fighting for, to which this deponent answered, 'he fought for the liberty that God and Nature gave him, and to defend himself and dearest connections from the massacre of savages.' 'To which Butler replied, ' You are a damned impudent rebel,' and so saying, immediately turned to the savages, encouraging them to kill him, and if they did not the deponent and the other prisoners should be hanged on a gallows then pre- paring. That several prisoners were then taken forward toward the enemy's headquarters, with frequent scenes of horror and massacre, in which Tories were active as well as savages. . . . That the prisoners who were not delivered up were murdered in considerable numbers from day to day round the camp, some of them so nigh that their shrieks were heard. That Capt. Martin, of the bateaux- men, was delivered to the Indians at Oswego, on pretence of his having kept back some useful intelligence. That this deponent during his imprisonment, and his fellows, were kept almost starved for provisions ; and what they drew were of the worst kind, such as spoiled flour, biscuit full of maggots and mouldy, and no soap allowed or other method of keeping clean; and were insulted, struck, etc., without merey by the guards, without any provocation given. That this deponent was informed by several sergeants orderly ou Gen. St. Leger that twenty dollars were offered in general orders for every American scalp." Dr. Younglove died Jan. 31, 1829, at the age of seventy-seven years, and his ashes lie beneath a handsome monument in the Hudson cemetery.
The most prominent officer from this county who served in the American army during the Revolution was Gen. Henry B. Livingston. His first notable service in that war was at the storming of Quebec, in December, 1775, where he led an assaulting column against the defenses of the upper town. As lieutenant-colonel he commanded a regiment in the battle of Stillwater, in 1777, and was present at the surrender of Burgoyne. He commanded at Verplanck's Point at the time of André's capture and Arnold's escape, in 1780. With but a single light piece-a four-pounder-he audaciously engaged the British frigate " Vulture," and this he did with so much vigor and effect that but for the setting in of the flood-tide the ship must have sunk. As it was, the cannon- ade, by alarming and delaying André, led to his capture and saved West Point. Speaking of his conduct upon that oe- casion Gen. Washington said to him, “ It is a great source of gratification to me that the post was in the hands of an officer so devoted as yourself to the cause of your country." And says Lossing, " Washington's confidence was not mis - placed, for there was not a purer patriot in that war than Henry B. Livingston." He was made a brigadier-general at the close of the war, and afterwards retired to his home in Columbia county, where he died in 1831.
CHAPTER VI.
CIVIL HISTORY.
Formation of Districts-Erection and Subdivision of the County.
CIVIL government was first introduced into what is now the State of New York from the Dutch Republic in 1621. Soon after the discovery of the " Great River of the Moun- tains" by Hudson, trading vessels were dispatched to the new land, whose enterprising skippers established trading- posts along the river, and shortly afterwards the States-Gen- eral took formal possession of the country, and the name of New Netherlands was given to the territory lying between New France and Virginia.
On the 11th of October, 1614, a large commercial com- pany, similar to its prototype, the Dutch East India Com- pany, was formed and chartered by the Duteh States-Gen- eral, styled the " New Netherland Company," for trading purposes with the Dutch possessions in America. The charter was to expire in three years from its date, but so profitable were the operations of the company at the expira- tion of their charter, that its wealth and consequent influence were such as to enable it to continue its monopoly of trade, and procure a still more liberal charter for a much more extensive company. In 1821 a second company was in- corporated and chartered, under the name of the " Dutch West India Company." It was a vast monopoly, founded in the selfish interests alone of trade, protracted and con- centrated even by the very limitation of its existence, which was to continue for a period of twenty-two years.
On the 12th day of May, 1664, Charles II., King of England, disregarding the Dutch claim to the "New Netherlands," granted to his brother James, Duke of York
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and Albany, " all Mattawacks (now Long Island), all Hud- son's river, all the lands from the west side of the Connec- ticut river to the cast side of Delaware bay, together with the royalties and rights of government."
To enforce this claim, Colonel Richard Nicolls was sent with a force naval and military, and Petrus Stuyvesant, the Dutch governor, surrendered the forts and government of the colony, stipulating for the retention of the rights of the West India Company in the lands then held by it and its grantees. In 1667, by the treaty of Breda, between Eng- land and Holland, the possession of the country was guaran- teed to the Duke of York by the States-General. With the exception of a brief interval in 1673-74, when the Dutch gained a temporary supremacy, the colony or prov- ince remained under the English rule until the war of the American Revolution, when the prerogative of the king gave way to the constitution of a sovereign state, under which the people are supreme and the sole source of govern- ment.
Under the Dutch the only civil divisions were the city and towns. In 1665 a district or shrievalty, called Yorkshire, was erected, comprising Long Island, Staten Island, and a part of the present county of Westchester. For judicial purposes it was divided into the east, west, and north ridings. Counties were first crected by the Colonial As- sembly, in November, 1683, and were twelve in number, as follows : Albany, Cornwall, Dukes, " Dutchesses," Kings, New York, Orange, Queens, Richmond, Suffolk, Ulster, and Westchester.
The county of Albany, as then erected, contained within its boundaries the present area of Columbia, except such portion as lies south of Roeloff Jansen's Kill, which was then a part of Dutchess county. The former county was thus limited in the act of erection : "To conteyne the towne of Albany, the colony of Rensselaerswyck, Schonec- tade, and all the villages, neighborhoods, and Christian habit- acons on the east of Hudson's river from Roeliffe Jansen's creek, and on the west from the Sawyer's creek to the Sar- aaghtooga."
The second Assembly, which met in 1691, under authority of the new sovereigns, William and Mary, declared the legislation of the first Assembly null and void .* and pro- ceeded to reorganize the counties. By that act of reorgan- ization (passed Oct. 1, 1691) the county of Albany was defined " to contain the manor of Rensselaerswyck, Sche- nectada, and all the Villages, Neighborhoods, and Christian Plantations on the cast side of Hudson's River from Rocloff Jansen's Creek, and on the west side from Sawyer's Creek to the outmost end of Saraghtoga." Dutchess county was by the same act described as extending " from the Bounds of the county of Westchester on the south side of the Highlands along the east side of Hudson's River as far as Roeloff Jansen's Creek, and eastward into the Woods Twelve Miles." This, so far as concerned the line between Dutchess and Albany, was but a re-establishment of the original boundary.
Rocloff Jansen's creek continued to be the north bound- ary of Dutchess county until 1817, when (May 27) a law
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was passed enacting that "the minor of Livingston shall be and forever remain annexed to the Countie of Albanie, and be accounted as Part, Parcel, and Member thercof, which bounds of the said Manor shall end and terminate the Countie of Albanie on the East side of Hudson's River, as the Sawyer's Creek doth terminate the same on the west side thereof."
By an act passed March 24, 1772, the territory now Columbia county was divided and formed into districts as follows, viz. :
" All that part of the county of Albauy north of the county of Dutchess and south of the bounds of Claverack, continue! to the easternmost extent of this Colony and to the castward of Hudson's River, shall be called aud kuowu as the District of the Manor of Liv- ingstop ;" and
" All that part which lies to the eastward of Kinderbook Distriet, to the north of Claverack District, and to the west of the cast bounds of this Colony, and to the south of an East line from Boaren Island, shall be one separate and distinct district, nud be henceforth called and known by the name of Kings District ;" and
" All that part of said county of Albany which is bounded on the south by the district of the Manor of Livingston, on the east by the east bounds of this Colony, on the west by Hudson's River, on the north by a Line beginning at the mouth of Major Abraham's Creek, and ruuning theoce up to the first falls, and from thenec enst as for as this Colony oxtenils, shall be, and is horeby declared to be, one separate and distinet District, and the same shall be from henceforth called and known by the Name of the District of Claverack ;" and
" All that part of the said county of Albany which lies to the northward of Claverack District, to the southward of an east line from Bearen Island in Hudson's River to the eastward of Hudson's River, and to the west of a straight line drawn from a point in the said East line from Bearen Island ten miles distant from lludson's River, and continued due south till it strikes the north bounds of the District of Claverack, shall be one separato and distinct District, to be called and known by the name of the District of Kinderhook ."
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