The Troy Public Library’s collection of Troy City Council minutes have interesting content. It’s a shame so many years are missing; I don’t know if copies might exist elsewhere. May 1, 1809: “Resolved that the Number of Taverns licensed in the Village of Troy the present year shall not exceed Seventeen” December 1816: “Resolved That Messrs H Publes [Peebles?] Townsend Mc Coun & Gordon Corning be a Committee to procure some person to keep open holes in the ice in the river Hudson the present Winter to afford easy access to water in case of fires” August 1818: “Resolved that the ground lying between Albany Street River Street & Second Street shall be denominated & known by the name of Washington Square” December 9, 1830: “Resolved that his Honor the Mayor and Alderman McCoun be a Committee to enquire into the propriety & practicability of annexing that part of the County of Albany lying north of the south bounds of the tract of Ground laterly denominated Port Schuyler and South of the North bounds of the said County of Albany, and extending one mile West of the Hudson River, to the County of Rensselaer, and annexing a like portion of the County of Rensselaer, situated in the Town of Greenbush opposite the city of Albany, to the said County of Albany and that the said Committee report.” August 6, 1835: “Resolved that the Burial Ground Committee be and they hereby are authorized to set a part a piece of Ground on the New Burial Ground in this City [Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling Avenue] for the exclusive use of the Coloured population.”