Address on Jacobus Stoutenburgh

drawing is reproduced in this Year Book through the kindness of Miss Haviland.

In 1820 Alexander H. Coffin made a sketch of the building and that view is reproduced in James H. Smith's History of Dutchess County, opposite page 327. Mr. Coffin, born in 1805 in the town of Washington, was living in Poughkeepsie in 1882 when Smith's History was published. It is to be supposed that he himself loaned his drawing for reproduction in the History. Perhaps, if his descendants could be found, the original sketch would be discovered to be still in their possession.

At an unknown date and by an unnamed artist another sketch was made of Nine Partners School. It was done in pencil and is now owned by Miss Katherine Wodell of Millbrook, who inherited it from her father, the late Silas Wodell. Mr. Wodell purchased the sketch at the auction-sale of the historical material that was collected by the late Benson J. Lossing. This pencil sketch is reproduced in this Year Book by Miss Wodell's kindness.

In the possession of Mrs. Charles L. McCord of New Rochelle, N. Y., is a photograph which records a sketch of Nine Partners School (in crayon?). It is not known where the crayon sketch now is. Nor is it known who the artist was nor the date of the work.

The sketch owned by Miss Wodell and the photograph owned by Mrs. McCord are so nearly identical that only close examination shows that there are slight differences in detail. The conclusion is obvious that one was copied from the other and that the copyist departed ever so slightly from the original. Which was the original it is impossible to say.

It is to be supposed that the pencil and crayon sketches were of later date than the other pictures listed. In the view of 1812-1814 and in that of 1820 the school-yard is surrounded by a fence of planks or boards, while in the other sketches a picket fence is shown. In 1812-1814 and in 1820 the windows lacked curtains and shutters. In the undated sketches curtains and shutters had been acquired. There are other minor differences but in essentials the pictures agree and it is possible for the present generation to believe that it knows what the building of Nine Partners School was like in fundamental particulars.

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EXHIBITION

AT EDGEWOOD, THE HOME OF HARRY HARKNESS FLAGLER, in connection with the PILGRIMAGE OF THE DUTCHESS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO MILLBROOK

SEPTEMBER 11th, 1935

EXHIBIT: No. 1—Map of Nine Partners Patent. Mid-18th Century. The map records the nine water-lots, laid out in 1699; the thirty-six great lots laid out in 1734; and the eighteen lesser lots laid out in 1740. Loaned by Harry Harkness Flagler, Millbrook, N. Y. No. 2—Map of Nine Partners Patent. Mid-18th century. The map records the nine water-lots laid out in 1699; the thirty-six great lots, laid out in 1734; and the eighteen lesser lots, laid out in 1740. Loaned by Miss Katherine Wodell, Millbrook, N. Y. No. 3—Deed from Aaron Haight of Crum Elbow Precinct in Dutchess County to William Palmer and Isaac Thorn, about 6 acres of land in Lot IL Nine Partners, 1745.

Loaned by Millbrook Library. No. 4—Deed from William Palmer and Isaac Thorn of Crum Elbow Precinct in Dutchess County to Joshua Haight, Joseph Reynolds, Jonathan Holmes, Jacob Haight, John Lapham, Peter Palmer and Ruben Palmer, for part of Lot II, Nine Partners, 6 acres of land, June 8, 1758. (Nine Partners Meeting House Land).

Loaned by Millbrook Library. No. 5—Marriage Certificate of John Wing and Miriam Thorn, married in Nine Partners Meeting House on the 27th of February, 1800. Loaned by Mrs. John M. Wing, Millbrook, N. Y. No. 6—Marriage Certificate of Richard Mitchell and Hannah Lawton, married in Nine Partners Meeting House December 26, 1822. Loaned by Charles C. Mitchell, Millbrook, N. Y. No. 7—Federal Government Certificate-1817—of payment of four wheel carriage tax by Joshua Carhart.

Loaned by Mrs. David M. Jackson, Millbrook, N. Y. No. 8—Nine Partners Record Book, containing a summary of the events in connection with the acquisition of the Great Nine Partners Patent in 1697 and the record of the proceedings at the meetings of the Nine Partners-November 6th, 1730 - December 31st, 1748. Loaned by Harry Harkness Flagler, Millbrook, N. Y. No. 8A—Copy of Dover Turnpike from a point east of Washington Hollow to the foot of Plymouth Hill—made 1804—by John Beadle under the road commissioners, Robert Johnston, Samuel Augustus Barker and Ebenezer Cary. (Note the position of Nine Partners School and William Thorn's store at Mechanic).

Loaned by Town of Washington.

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