origin of "Nine Partners" name
Researching my grandfather. Know little other than b. Arthur B. Rider Poughkeepsie, NY February 16,1873- d. in hospital at Flandreau, South Dakota on Nov. 29, 1938. Mention in obit as coming "from a long line of distingushed ancestors, one of them being an original member of the New Amsterdam Company, known more commonly as the "nine Dutchmen" who founded and governed the policies of early New York. Can't find any reference to nine Dutchmen other than the Nine Partners Quaker Settlement (Thomas Rider mentioned). That settlement's name must have come from somewhere...Don't know his father's name or if he had brothers/sisters-stuck here.
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Re: origin of "Nine Partners" name
Ruth Kittner 6/13/01