|Troy's One Hundred Years 1789-1889: The first burying-ground
seen on the site of Troy by the early settlers was that of the
VAN DER HEYDENs - a small plat fenced with pales, at the east
ends of lots 37 and 38, at the south-east corner of River and
Congress streets. In excavating for the foundation of one of the
buildings erected in later years on them, the remains of some
bodies buried there were disinterred. After Jacob D. VAN DER
HEYDEN removed to his mansion, at the head of Grand Division
Street, he enclosed a small plat of ground on the eastern hill,
a short distance north of the site of the Provincial Seminary,
for a family graveyard. In it he and other members of his family
were buried. In July 1857, the remains in it were transferred to
graves in Oakwood Cemetery. The burial-ground of the SCHUYLER
family was not far north of the homestead, south of the Poesten
Kill, near the later intersection of First and Madison streets.
The following inscriptions were copied from some of the
headstones marking the