Dutchess County Historical Society Yearbook Vol 020 1935

MAPS OF NINE PARTNERS PATENT In connection with the pilgrimage of September 11, 1935, to the neighborhood in the town of Washnigton, Dutchess County, that formerly was referred to as: Nine Partners, four maps of Nine Partners Patent, that were drawn in the middle of the eighteenth century, have been listed. The four maps are the following: (1) Map on file in the office of the County Clerk.

(2) Map owned by Mr. Harry Harkness Flagler of IVIillbrook, which was purchased by Mr. Flagler from Mrs. Helen Lossing Johnson. Mrs. Johnson inherited the map from her father, the late Benson J. Lossing.

(3) Map owned by Miss Katherine Wodell of Millbrook. Miss Wodell inherited the map from her father, the late Silas Wodell, who bought it at an auction-sale of historical material collected by the late Benson J. Lossing.

(4) Map owned by the Adriance IVIemorial Library, Poughkeepsie. This map was made for the Filkin family, descendants of Henry Filkin, one of the original nine partners. In 1882 the map was owned

by Mrs. Caroline Filkin Germond of Dutchess County (see: J. H. Smith's History of Dutchess County, page 337). From her it passed among her direct descendants to her great-granddaughter, Miss Clara Germond of Poughkeepsie and the latter's sisters, who in 1935 gave the map to the library.

Of the four maps, above, one (IVIr. Flagler's) is on parchment, the other three are on paper. No two are in the same hand-writing. The writing on the map owned by Miss Wodell is identifiable as that of Henry Livingston of Poughkeepsie (who was a surveyor and draughtsman and who served as Clerk of Dutchess County 1737-1789). All four maps record the three partitions of land that were made by the owners, namely: the partition of 1699, when the nine water-lots were laid out; the partition of 1734, when the thirty-six great lots were laid out; the partition of 1740, when the eighteen lesser lots were laid out; and all four show also the lands that were sold by the partners in 1738 to raise money for the expenses of the company.

The map filed in the office of the County Clerk shows only the courses and distances provided by the several surveys made for the successive partitions. The other three each give some details. They show 37