Catalogue of Exhibition at Edgewood

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

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edition) ; Key to Willetts' Arithmetic (one copy) ; Key to Mental and Practical Arithmetic (one copy) ; Mental and Practical Arithmetic (revised edition, by Augustus R. McCord, 1849) ; Easy Grammar of Geography (several copies, editions from 1815 to 1828) ; Willetts' Geography (several copies, editions from 1826 to 1831) ; Wiltells' New and Improved School Geography (several copies, editions 1848 1843); Atlas, to accompany Easy Grammar of Geography (one copy) ; Map of the State of New York, one copy, undated (by internal evidence prior to 1821). 17. Appleton's Cyclopoedia of American Biography; Philip H. Smith's History of Dutchess County (1877), pp. 426,427; James H. Smith's History of Dutchess County (1882), p. 329; History of Dutchess County, edited 1909 by Frank Hasbrouck, p. 489; obituary, Daily Eagle, Poughkeepsie, Jan. 13, 1880, p. 2, col. 6. 18. As per Benson J. Lossing, quoted at p. 329 of James H. Smith's History of Dutchess County; Appleton's Cyclopoedia of American Biography; Scribner's Dictionary of American Biography. 19. James H. Smith's History of Dutchess County, p. 329. 20. Appleton's Cyclopoedia of American Biography; Scribner's Dictionary of American Biography. 21. Dutchess County Doorways, Reynolds, 1931, p. 118. 22. Ibid., p. 75.

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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

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one road on the patent, running between the northwest and southeast corners of the tract. On Mr. Flagler's map it is marked: Wassaic Road, on Miss Wodell's : Dover Road. On the maps owned by Miss Wodell and the library eight houses show within the boundaries of the patent, while on Mr. Flagler's there are marks at equivalent locations which, although blurred, are evidently in agreement. The eight houses are

Two on great lot No. 29; marked: Richard Sackett, Hen. Nees. 1 on great lot No. 33; marked John Salsberry. 1 on great lot No. 12; on the library map this is marked: Abraham Freer; on the Wodell map this is marked: A. Freer now A. Creed. 2 on great lot No. 7; on the library map these are marked: Reynier Van Sant, Willm Ruard ; on the Wodell map one is marked: Henry Filkin, the other has no name attached. 2 on lesser lot No. 7; marked: Maxfield, Wid. Allen.

The nine water-lots appear on Miss Wodell's map as follows: No. 1, no name; No. 2, marked: Henry Filkin ; No. 3, marked: Augustine Graham, now Joseph Mott; No. 4, marked: James Emmot now Rutgers; No. 5, no name; No. 6, William Creed; No. 7, marked: Jamison; No. 8, marked: Coll. Heathcoat ; No. 9, no name.

With the exception of the map in the Clerk's office, the maps all show certain hills, streams and ponds and the lots are marked: good or bad or indifferent, to indicate the quality of the soil. All but the Clerk's map show a ,few details beyond the boundaries of the patent, as follows: (1) On the Flagler, Wodell and library maps are two houses just below the south line of the patent and near its east end, marked: Jacob Van Camp, Derrick Dutcher. (2) On the library map are four houses east of the patent, near Wassaic Creek. (3) On the Wodell map are two houses north of the patent-line and east of Stissing mountain. (4) On the Wodell map, Kingston Landing and Kingston are recorded. (5) On the library map, on the site of the city of Poughkeepsie, is the word Pocapse, with eleven buildings, two roads and—at the mouth of the Fallkill—the words: Lewis's mill creek. The roads are apparently equivalent to the present: Main, Washington, and Mill street from the Court House to river, plus North Bridge street from Mill to

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