Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook Vol 020 1935

REFERENCES 1. The patent is recorded in Book 7 of Patents, page 87, State Library (Manuscripts and History Section), Albany, N. Y. 2. A narrow strip across the north ends of Stanford and Clinton was not covered by Ninie Partners Patent, while a small piece across the south end of the town of North East was included.

3. The three partitions are witnessed to by the original Record Book of the Nine Partners, owned by Mr. Harry Harkness Flagler of Millbrook, and by four original maps made in the 18th century after the partition of 1740. Of the four maps, one is owned by Mr. Flagler ; one by Miss Katherine Wodell of Millbrook; one is filed in the office of the Clerk of Dutchess County; and one is in the Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie. The four maps are the same in essentials, differing only in more or less minor detail.

4. See: map of Nine Partners Patent, Adriance Memorial Library; Miscellaneous Records of Dutchess County, pp. 153, 160; County Road-Book B, p. 20.

5. Road-Book B, p. 20.

6. An approximation of the route was obtained by comparing the map of Nine Partners Patent, which is in the Adriance Memorial Library, with a recent topographical map of the same area.

7. Supervisors' Book, 1717-1722, p. 50; published by Vassar Brothers Institute.

8. Miscellaneous Records of Dutchess County, p. 160.

9. Ibid., p. 163.

10. Year Book, D. C. H. S., vol. 17 (1932), pp. 80-82.

11. Dutchess County deeds, liber 15, page 157.

12. About 1812-1814 Phebe Martin (born 1800) made a sketch of the school-building while a pupil in it. She later married Joseph Haviland and her granddaughter, Miss Jane R. Haviland of Poughkeepsie, now owns the sketch. In 1820 Alexander H. Coffin, when a pupil at Nine Partners, made a sketch of the building, which is reproduced in James H. Smith's History of Dutchess County (1882), p. 326. The two drawings are the same in essentials.

A third early picture of the school (undated) is a pencil sketch, owned by Miss Katherine Wodell of Millbrook, which confirms the other two.

13. See: Bulletin of Friends Historical Society of Philadelphia, vol. 10, No. 1, November, 1920, article by Esther L. S. McGonegal, titled: Nine Partners Boarding School (1796-1863) ; also: Address delivered September 21, 1921,

by Stephen H. Merritt before the D. C. H. S., printed in Year Book, vol. • 7 (1922), pp. 16-20; also: pamphlet, Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie, titled: Jacob and Deborah Willetts, a reprint in 1899 of an article by Joel Benton, published in Poughkeepsie Enterprise; also: in Adriance Memorial Library catalogues of Nine Partners School for 1844-1845, 1845-1846, 1858, 1859-1860.

14. Appleton's Cyclopoedio of American Biography; Philip H. Smith's History of Dutchess County (1877), pp. 426-427; James H. Smith's History of Dutchess County (1882), pp. 327, 329-330; History of-Dutchess County, edited 1909 by Frank Hasbrouck, pp. 488, 489, article by the Reverend J. E. Lyall, and p. 410; Will of Jacobus Willetts, records of Surrogate of Dutchess County, vol. U, p. 506.

15. A deed, dated May 5, 1819, recorded in the office of the Clerk of Dutchess County, liber 27, p. 376, apparently conveys to Jacob Willetts the site of the small house west of the present tennis courts.

16. The Adriance Memorial Library, Poughkeepsie, contains the following titles of Jacob Willetts' publications: The Scholars' Arithmetic (several copies, editions from 1817 to 1832) ; Mental and Practical Arithmetic (several copies, editions from 1844 to 1857) ; Bookkeeping by Single Entry (one copy, revised 35