It’s a great new addition to the website! > When the cemetery was created in 1841, the property had been part of Groesbeckville, a hamlet in the Town of Bethlehem, Albany County. It was considered in those days to be far in the country. Groesbeckville was annexed by the City of Albany in 1870. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nytigs/StJohnsCemetery_Albany/StJohnsCemetery-Albany_Intro-Index.htm Albany seems to have begun agitating for the cemetery’s removal starting around that same time, 1870. That sort of thing seems to happen a lot. Troy annexes Lansingburgh, and immediately there’s talk of removing the Lansingburgh Village Burial Ground (which fortunately didn’t happen, but the city woefully neglected it). Albany annexes Arbor Hill and obtains ownership of the Rensselaerwyck Cemetery established in 1764 and then turns the cemetery into Hall Place and Van Rensselaer Park - without even moving the bodies. > A large [underground] vault was placed in the center of the plot and all bodies not claimed were put in the common vault and the spot covered. The bones, or what remains of them are now reposing within the confines of the park. The ground belongs unreservedly to the city and it has the legal and moral right to do with it just as the Common Council and mayor shall so decide. “City of Albany Has a Clear Title; Deeds to Van Rensselaer and St. Joseph’s Parks Are on File; Many Queries Answered; History of the Negotiations Which Resulted in Establishment of the Breathing Spaces.” Albany Evening Journal. August 1, 1901: 8 col 1. Most of the info I’d collected about St. John’s Cemetery is at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7Mt-S77wZKfS1pialQ3U3BiVU0/view?usp=sharing though that might not be the most recent version of the document. I’d also found at least one other city map showing the cemetery. There’s a page on findagrave for the cemetery http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2482276 Memorials shouldn’t be added to that cemetery, as the people are all supposed to have been moved to other cemeteries. There’s a lecture at the Bethlehem Historical Society tonight about Albany and Bethlehem’s boundaries, unfortunately same time as TIGS’ meeting: > November 2014 - Boundary Lines > On Thursday, November 20 at 7 PM Albany City Historian Anthony Opalka and Bethlehem Town Historian Susan Leath will illustrate how the boundary line between Albany and Bethlehem has changed over the years. The City of Albany evolved from Fort Orange and Beaverwyck; Bethlehem from Rensselaerswyck Manor and the Town of Watervliet. Bethlehem was divided in 1832 to form the Town of New Scotland and Albany has annexed many sections since then. Discover more during Opalka and Leath’s talk at the Cedar Hill Schoolhouse, 1003 River Road, Selkirk. Free and open to the public. http://bha1965.webs.com Incidentally, I’d found some newspaper coverage of the Albany Common Council’s decisions with respect to the cemetery, but there’s likely other ones I didn’t find. The NYSL in Albany has a fairly complete collection of the Proceedings of the Common Council of the City of Albany, which might be worth consulting. Chris