Several people have sent me lists of ancestors asking if any of them were mentioned among the dead in the account of the "Great Fire" I cited in my email about the fire. Rather than respond individually, I'll post here the names listed in "Landmarks of Rensselaer County" , a history/promotional book by George Baker Anderson, published in 1897. I'm not convinced this is the definitive mortality record from this event--Anderson seems a little squishy in his facts other places in this book, and he does refer to this list as: "Several lives were lost." and...."the fatalities including:" which, to me, implies he may be leaving a few out. Here are the ones he mentions: Dr. Zenas Cary, an aged physician residing at No. 29 Grand Division St; Ransom S. Haight, who was burned almost beyond recognition on Seventh Street; Thomas O'Donnell, an aged blind man, burned to death in his home on Green St; Mary Dunlop and her child, whose bodies were discovered after the fire." Marianne Briggs mbriggs@nycap.rr.com --