“In 1811, the Cohoes Manufacturing Company, composed entirely of gentlemen from Lansingburg, was incorporated, being one of the first corporations formed under the ‘general act’ of that year. A tract of sixty acres on the bank of the river, which was part of the Heamstreet farm[fn 1], together with the water privilege, was secured, and land was also purchased from Jacobus Van Schoonhoven on the opposite site of the river, embracing what is now known as Simmons’s Island.” “[Fn 1] This tract, known for some years as the Factory lot, and which afterward came into possession of the Cohoes Company, comprised all that part of the Heamstreet farm which lay east of Mohawk street, down to a point near Columbia street.” Masten, Arthur H. The History of Cohoes, New York, From its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time. Albany, NY: Joel Munsell, 1872. 37. http://books.google.com/books?id=6BgzAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA37 Simmons Island is the tiny island west of Van Schaick Island where St. Michael’s R.C. Church, U-Haul and the Ukrainian-American Citizens Club are and where Golden Krust Bakery used to be before it burned. The Simmons Family Cemetery in Cohoes, incidentally, is not in very good shape: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=2546624 The Cohoes City Cemetery on Columbia Street (now West End Park) that was reinterred on the east side of Union Cemetery in Crescent had been turned over to the city by the Cohoes Company. It seems at least possible that people from Lansingburgh had been buried there. Masten’s book includes a selective necrology, concentrating primarily on very old or prominent men of Cohoes. One of the men in Cohoes’ cemetery in Crescent is in the necrology: “1849. Jan. 4, John Jackson, aged 78. Mr. J. was a native of Glasgow, Scotland, and an old resident of Cohoes” (Masten 1872, 268). http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=132996968 Someone who had been buried in the Columbia Street Cemetery, probably reinterred to Crescent, was Andrew Paisley from Ireland: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=133245374 I found a couple St. Patrick’s Day toasts he gave, e.g.: “The State of New-York—She receives Irishmen into her bosom, and Ireland breeds no vipers.” Albany Evening Journal. March 22, 1833: 2 col 5. Scotsman William Leckie (1819-1876) and his family, buried at Mount Ida Cemetery on Pawling Avenue in Troy, seem to have been from Cohoes - his father Robert reportedly one of the earliest settlers of Cohoes: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=115845330 Some family member must have had a Troy connection to be buried in Mount Ida. One wonders how many other people in the Cohoes necrology might be buried in Troy. Chris