The original question was sent to both the Albany and Rensselaer lists. Sunday, I responded only to the Albany list. Since the question about Kinderhook's location is still on this list, I am now sending part of my earlier response. It contains links to gazetteers that I use frequently. Cliff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Kinderhook has been in northern Columbia Co. since 1786 when that county was cut from Albany Co. Here is a great gazetteer for modern NY. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyjeffer/nytwp.htm The next gazetteer shows place that changed their names in NY. However, many places are missing. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb/places/names.htm Here is a map of NY counties and a list of counties with their dates of formation and from what county they were taken. http://www.rootsweb.com/~nygenweb/county.htm All of these are links from my website. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~clifflamere/ Cliff