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Dutchess County is a county in the U.S. state of New York. As of the 2020 census, the population was 295,911. [4] The county seat is the city of Poughkeepsie. [5] The county was created in 1683, one of New York's first twelve counties, [A] and later organized in 1713. [B] [6] The county is part of the Hudson Valley region of the state.
The Senate House, in Kingston, is where the U.S. state of New York was founded in 1777. [1] The predecessors of Hudson Valley towns predate the state. The towns and cities of the Hudson Valley were created by the U.S. state of New York as municipalities, in order to perform the services of local government. [2]
The Great Nine Partners Patent, also known as the "Lower Nine Partners Patent," was a land grant in Dutchess County, New York, made on May 27, 1697, by New York governor Benjamin Fletcher. The parcel included about four miles (6 km) along the Hudson River and was eight to ten miles (13 to 16 km) wide, extending from the Hudson River to the ...
In 1731 it was incorporated into Dutchess County, and divided in 1754 among three Philipse heirs. It remained in the Loyalist Philipse family until seized in 1779 during the Revolution. The Commissioners of Forfeiture of the Revolutionary Province of New York auctioned it in parcels, without compensation to its prior owners.
The Hudson River shore of the Rombout Patent in the town of Wappinger, New York. The Rombout Patent was a Colonial era land patent issued by King James II of England in 1685 sanctioning the right of Francis Rombouts and his partners Stephanus Van Cortlandt and Jacobus Kip to own some 85,000 acres (34,000 ha) of land they had purchased from Native Americans.
The Little Nine Partners Patent was a land patent granted in 1706 in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It was the last of 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 ).
Harmen married Elizabeth Bogaert, the daughter of Jan Bogaert and Cornelia Everts of Harlem, New York.Before 1682, Harmen settled near what is now Albany, New York, and there in 1704 he bought through Harnie Gansevoort one-fourth of the land in Dutchess County near Red Hook, New York, which had been patented in 1688 to Pieter Schuyler.
Jacob Griffin (April 1730 – 20 March 1800) was a Revolutionary War colonel serving in the New York, Dutchess County, Rombout Precinct Militia. He rose through the ranks, first commissioned as a captain in 1775, then promoted to major and finally, in 1778 to lieutenant colonel.