A retrospect of forty years, 1825-1865 . hristened him Medad. The re-sult of this whimsical choice was that no one of his nu-merous male descendants ever bore his Christian name.He was very fond of me and in the affectionate devotionwhich I returned to him I included an ardent wish to bearhis name, carrying this preference so far, if I rightly re-member, as occasionally to sign my name or at leastindulge myself in writing it as a counterpart of his.2 1 Colonel John Joness first wife was Margaret Edwards. She died in 1651 andwas the mother of all his children. He had no children by his second w
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A retrospect of forty years, 1825-1865 . hristened him Medad. The re-sult of this whimsical choice was that no one of his nu-merous male descendants ever bore his Christian name.He was very fond of me and in the affectionate devotionwhich I returned to him I included an ardent wish to bearhis name, carrying this preference so far, if I rightly re-member, as occasionally to sign my name or at leastindulge myself in writing it as a counterpart of his.2 1 Colonel John Joness first wife was Margaret Edwards. She died in 1651 andwas the mother of all his children. He had no children by his second wife.—Ed. * A work which my father undertook as a labor of love for his entire familyand which involved much arduous preparation was The Book of the Familyand Lineal Descendants of Medad Butler, which contains the names of allthe descendants of his grandfather ingeniously classified according to genera-tion and family, with details of parentage, age, marriages and deaths, down tothe date of the publication of the book in 1887.—Ed. l6. A RETROSPECT OF FORTY YEARS Much of my early life was spent with my grand-father at Kinderhook Landing, where he had come fromBranford, Conn., in 1787. Before my birth he had pro-cured the requisite authority to change the name of theplace to Stuyvesant, in honor of Peter Stuyvesant, thevalorous governor of New York immortalized in IrvingsKnickerbocker. He built a modest homestead on theeast side of the highway leading from Kinderhook Land-ing as originally settled, to the village of Kinderhook, fivemiles distant inland. This place was called by the vil-lagers The Hill, and in general parlance the definitearticle was also associated with my grandfather, who wasknown as The Judge, he being for many years a countyjudge and in the latter part of his life the first judge ofColumbia County. The Hill was somewhat singular in situation. Asharp rise of ground from the highway was surmounted bya plateau on which the house stood facing the river, reached
