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
The Great Nine Partners Patent spanned from the Hudson River in the west to The Oblong along the Connecticut border in the east, and was largely bounded by the Little Nine Partners Patent to the north and the Beekman Patent to the south