A couple notes from the Troy Public Library’s scrapbooks, the first of which I’ve excerpted from a typewritten letter there: > The [Trinity Church] burial ground extended formerly (not southward, as your article says, but) eastward. Fifteenth St., formerly Market St., was there when the church was built. Fourth Ave. formerly John St., was not opened until thirty or forty years afterwards. The part of the church yard taken and now under the side walk on the west side of Fourth Ave. is the part where slaves were buried. Dr. C.M. Nickerson, Trinity Rectory, to Jessie F. Wheeler, Philip Schuyler Chapter D.A.R., February 2[0/6/8?], 1917 I hadn’t known their burial ground was reduced in size, though it makes sense that it had been as it is quite small at present. Hopefully the plots now under the sidewalk were moved first! A handwritten note referring to a small family burial ground and burials not recorded in the Rensselaer County Cemetery Database http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyrensse/cemetery.htm > Koon Plot—north of the road which curves west from Winter Street, Troy, and leads into Wynantskill, Rensselaer County New York. Copied July 11 1920 by Milton Thomas of Troy. > > In > memory of > JOHN KOON > who died April 18, 1814 > aged 64 years 3 months > + 28 days > (epitaph too weathered to permit of reading) > — > In > memory of > Sarah Koon > wife of > John Koon > She died April 27th > 1805; in the 54th > year of her age > Blessed are the dead that > die in the Lord that they > may rest from their la- > bours and their works > do follow them. > — Some references online to it: "John died 4/10/1814 at Wynantskill, N.Y. He and Sarah are buried in a small private cemetery there on the family farm." http://www.ark-internet.com/tedpat/GER/Kuhn.htm "Does anyone on the Rensselaer County or Columbia County Lists recognize this Sarah Salisbury? (Sarah Salisbury Koon and John Koon were my 4th great grandparents). "Gary A. Craver in Albany County” http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/NYRENSSE/2005-03/1111591651 I don’t know if it’s still there. Milton Thomas’ description seems to place it in the same general area as the Van Schaick and Sharpe Cemetery, which was north of Winter Street Extension somewhere between Farrington Avenue and Crestwood Lane. The Van Schaick and Sharpe Cemetery, I was informed, was destroyed by the expansion of the Troy landfill. Chris