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[[Image:Little Nine Partners Patent Lots Division 1744.jpg|thumb|right|1897 reprint of a 1744 map showing division of the Little Nine Partners Patent in Dutchess County into Lots]]
[[File:Little Nine Partners Patent 1744 Partition Dutchess County.pdf|thumb|Little Nine Partners Patent 1744 Partition Dutchess County]]

The '''Little Nine Partners Patent''' was a [[land patent]] granted in 1706 in [[Dutchess County, New York]], United States.  It was the last of [[Dutchess County, New York#The Patents|fourteen patents]] granted between 1685 and 1706 which came to cover the entirety of historic Dutchess County (which until 1812 included today's [[Putnam County, New York|Putnam County]]).

The first ten, granted between 1685 and 1697, covered almost all of [[Hudson River]] shoreline in the original county, with three &ndash; [[Rombouts Patent|Rombouts]], the [[Great Nine Partners Patent|Great Nine 7Partners]], and [[Philipse Patent]]s, extending significantly inland. The eleventh, and smallest, Cuyler, 1697, was the first to contain solely inland territory, just in from the Hudson. The twelfth, and next smallest, Fauconnier, in 1703, completed the Hudson River shoreline.  The last two, [[Beekman Patent|Beekman]], 1705, and the Little Nine Partners, 1706, laid claim to the remaining interior lands.

==History==
The patent was located in the northern part of the county, and comprises all or parts of the modern towns of [[Milan, New York|Milan]], [[Pine Plains (town), New York|Pine Plains]], and [[North East, New York|North East]].  Roughly triangular in shape, it was bounded on the north by [[Columbia County, New York|Columbia County]], on the south by the [[Great Nine Partners Patent]] (1697) and on the west by the [[Schuyler Patent|Schuyler]] (1686) and [[Rhinebeck Patent|Rhinebeck]] (1697) [[Land grant|patent]]s.  Its eastern boundary was the area known as [[The Oblong]], a narrow strip of land along the eastern edge of Dutchess County, bordering the state of [[Connecticut]].

===Partners===
There were eight original patentees of the Little Nine Partners Patent: 
* Sampson Broughton
* Rip Van Dam
* Thomas Wenham
* Roger Mompesson
* Peter Fauconier
* Augustine Graham
* Richard Sackett
* Robert Lurting

George Clarke subsequently bought a ninth share, becoming the ninth partner, but not a patentee.<ref>[http://lnphs.com/the-little-nine-partners-patent  Little Nine Partners Historical Society]</ref>

===Allocation===
Although awarded in 1706, it was not until 1744 that the allocation of each of the nine partners was associated with a specific lot through a Dutchess County Court process that involved a lottery system, drawn by "two boys...under the age of sixteen."

==See also==
{{Portal|Hudson Valley}}
* [[Great Nine Partners Patent]]
* [[Rombout Patent]]
* [[Dutchess County, New York#The patents|Dutchess County land patents]]
* [[Philipse Patent]]

== External links ==
* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~nylnphs/ Little Nine Partners Historical Society] 
* [http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nylnphs/Images/L9P_MAP.JPG  Historic map]

== References ==
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[[Category:Pre-statehood history of New York (state)]]
[[Category:History of the Thirteen Colonies]]
[[Category:1706 in the Province of New York]]


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