§2 Great Nine Partners (NY)

The Great Nine Partners Patent of 1697 was located in Dutchess County, NY, south of the Little Nine Partners patent of 1706. For this reason it is sometimes referred to as the Lower Nine Partners Patent. (See the map on the site directory.)
The patentees were: 1

1. John (Jan) Aarston 2
2. William Creed
3. James Emott (Emmot) - ancestor of the [1874] Judge of the [NY] Supreme Court
4. Hendrick ten Eyck
5. Lieut. Col. Henry Filkin - after whom the old town of Filkintown was named, now part of Mabbetsville.
6. Major Augustin Graham - Of Scots descent
7. Col. Caleb Heathcote - a descendant of a noble English family
8. David Johnstone3
9. Jarvis Marshall

This grant included the now towns of Clinton, Pleasant Valley, Stanford, Washington, Amenia, Hyde Park beyond the Crum Elbow Creek, and the southern part of Northeast.4

• History
  • The Patent in the P. H. Smith history of Dutchess County.
• People
  • Heads of Families, Oblong and Nine Partners Circularly, Dutchess, NY Transcription of an LDS film, relating to membership in these Quaker meetings.
• Places that were part of the Great Nine Partners Patent
  • The Nine Partners Boarding School Now the Oakwood Friends School in Poughkeepsie.
    • McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Nine Partners Boarding School Class of 1989 Loss of Sexual Innocence Walking Tour By Keith Bunin. A salacious memoir -- with a bit of history thrown in. The Nine Partners Boarding School was founded in 1868 by the Onondaga Monthly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends in order to provide a superior secondary education for Quaker
    • Welcome To Oakwood Friends School
    • The Nine Partners Boarding School, restored illustration
    • Mott Project Lucretia Mott was one of the school's most well-known graduates.
  • Town of Amenia
    • Municipality Page
    • Amenia - Dutchess County New York - Harlem Valley Partnership
    • Amenia, NY 12501
    • Town of Amenia, NY - Central Dutchess County, NY - Seven Oaks Realty
  • Town of Clinton
    • Municipality Page
    • Clinton Town, Part of the Dutchess ALHN Genealogy Pages
    • Clinton, NY 12404
    • Dutcher Family Genealogy and History Dutchess County New York
    • Haunted Hudson Valley: Clinton hamlet was home to friendly ghost
    • Town of Clinton: Historical Society
  • Town of Northeast
    • Municipality Page
    • North East, NY
  • Town of Pleasant Valley
    • Municipality Page
    • Pleasant Valley History
    • Pleasant Valley, New York, USA
    • Pleasant Valley, NY - Central Dutchess County, NY - Seven Oaks Realty
    • Pleasant Valley, NY 12569
  • Town of Stanford
    • Municipality Page
    • Stanford, NY
    • Stanford, NY - Central Dutchess County, NY - Seven Oaks Realty
  • Town of Washington
    • Municipality Page
    • Town of Washington, NY - Central Dutchess County, NY - Seven Oaks Realty
• Bibliographic, Link Farms, & Suites
  • Library of Congress citations

Notes:

1. << Bailey, Henry D. B., Local Tales and Historical Sketches; Fishkill Landing: Spaight, publisher; 1874; p.285. This list is essentially the same as that given by MacCracken.
2. << MacCracken: Aertson
3. << MacCracken: David Jamison
4. << MacCracken, Dr. Henry Noble, Olde Dutchess Forever, NY 1956; p.50-51

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