Memorial to Jacobus Stoutenburgh

the Fallkill. (6) On the Wodell map, on the site of the city of Poughkeepsie, are roads practically the same as on the library map, but no buildings.

Not one of the four maps is dated but the fact that they all record the eighteen lesser lots, that were laid out in 1740, proves that they could not have been made before that year.

It can be assumed that the Wodell map was drawn later than the library map because it records: "A. Freer now A. Creed" in connection with a house which is marked on the library map as: "Abraham Freer."

A clue to the approximate date of the Wodell map is found in the following facts. The map shows water-lot number 3 marked: "Augustine Graham now Joseph Mott." Deeds in the office of the County Clerk (liber 4, page 377, and liber 6, page 128) reveal that Joseph Mott bought water-lot number 3 on May 24th, 1750, and sold the lot on May 5th, 1747. In this connection it should be noted that the map records "VVid. Allen" as a resident on great lot number 7. This was Elizabeth, widow of John Allen, who lived near the site of the present village of Pleasant Valley. She was a tax-payer for some years up to 1748. The tax-lists for 1749-1752 are lost. In February 1753 her name is not on the list and it is believed that she died between 1748 and 1753. Comparing 1748-1753 with 1750-1757 (when Joseph Mott owned water-lot number 3), the inference is allowable that the Wodell map was drawn between May, 1750, and February, 1753.

Finally, on June 10, 1745, Anthony Rutgers of the city of New York bought water-lot number 4 (deeds, liber 2, page 64). He died in 1746 leaving a will by which he gave his real estate to his widow and children. These circumstances tally with the entry on the Wodell map on water-lot number 4, which says: "James Emmot now Rutgers."

PICTURES OF NINE PARTNERS BOARDING SCHOOL

Of the building that formerly stood in the town of Washington, Dutchess County and which was occupied from 1796 to 1863 by Nine Partners Boarding School no photograph is at hand but three sketches of it are available.

About 1812-1814 Eliza Jordan (born 1800) made a colored drawing of the school while a pupil in it, which drawing is now owned by her granddaughter, Miss Jane R. Haviland of Poughkeepsie. The

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