Kinderhook Creek

Kinderhook Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data
The National Map
, accessed October 3, 2011 tributary to Stockport Creek, an inlet of the Hudson River in the United States. From its source in Hancock, Massachusetts, the creek runs southwest through the Taconic Mountains into Rensselaer County, New York, and then into Columbia County. It flows through the towns of Stephentown, New Lebanon, Nassau, Chatham, Kinderhook and Stuyvesant to its mouth at Stockport Creek in the town of Stockport.

Kinderhook Creek has a drainage area of over .

History

Kinderhook Creek was known as ''Pasanthkack'' by the Mahican Native Americans. Prior to 1667 it was known as "Major Abram's (Staats) Kill" and "Third Falls." In 1823 it was called Stuyvesant Falls (now referring to a village on the creek) and after 1845 "Kinderhook Creek".

The name "Kinderhook" has its root in the landing of Henry Hudson in the area around present-day Stuyvesant, where he was greeted by Native Americans with many children. With the Dutch ''Kinder'' meaning "child" and ''Hoeck'' meaning "bend" or "hook" n the river the name literally means "bend in the river where the children are". A figurative translation is "children's point".

The area around Kinderhook Creek was called ''Machackoesk'' by the Native American Mahican Tribe.History of the Indian tribes of Hudson's River: their origin, manners and customs..., By Edward Manning Ruttenberg, page 370
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Tributaries

* Valatie Kill - Native American, ''Tsat-sa-was-sa'' or ''Tack-a-was-ick'' creek (and lake) are placed in the town of Nassau by the French. The name may refer to a stone mortar.
* Kline Kill - Native American Mahican name ''Scom-pa-muck'' or ''Squampanoc''''Aboriginal place names of New York'', by William Martin Beauchamp, page 48
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** Indian Creek
** Punsit Creek
* Stony Kill
** Frisbee Creek
** Queechy Lake Brook - Mahican name ''Quis-sich-kook'', unknown meaning
* Green Brook
* Tackawasick Creek
** Cranberry Vly
* Black Brook
** Huff Brook
* Hollow Brook
* Wyomanock Creek - Native American name for the creek. Also known as Lebanon Creek.
** South Branch Wyomanock Creek
** Berry Pond Creek
*** Red Oak Brook
* Taplin Bourn (from Middle English bourne, a brook)
* Black River
* Roaring Brook
* East Brook
** West Brook
* Bentley Brook
* Whitman Brook
* Jones Brook
* Rathburn Brook

See also

* List of rivers of New York
* List of rivers of Massachusetts
* Kinderhook (town), New York

References

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Rivers of Columbia County, New York
Rivers of Berkshire County, Massachusetts
Rivers of New York (state)
Taconic Mountains
Tributaries of the Hudson River
Rivers of Massachusetts