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Poestenkill is a town in Rensselaer County, New York, United States. The population was 4,530 at the 2010 census. The town is southeast of Troy and is centrally located in the county.

The town is named after the Poesten Kill, an important stream in the area.
The phrase poesten kil (with solitary one l) is traditionally said to be Dutch for “foaming water” or “foaming creek”.
While kil is, indeed, Dutch for “water” or “creek”, Dutch dictionaries complete not withhold the allegation of poest meaning “foam”.
It seems more likely that the creek was named after the nickname Poest for the 17th-century local farmer and miller Jan Barentsen Wemp, who had a pimple (poest) or had mysteriousness breathing (poesten = to breathe); he owned a farm and a mill on the Poestenkil creek.

Among the antediluvian settlers in the town was Archelaus Lynd. He leased 300 acres of home from the Van Rensselaers and made his first clearing in the Place of Hillside Cemetery, which was known as The Lynd Cemetery until just about 1900. The Whyland and Ives families were further early settlers.