This exposition is intended to place Lansingburgh in its Albany context. It is NOT a definitive community history but, for our purposes, a part of the history of the city of Albany.

Defined here as the land on the eastern side of the Hudson River and about eight miles north of the city of Albany, European settlement dates from the period after the end of the Seven Years War.

Albany native and resident farmer Abraham Ja. Lansing purchased the land from earlier patentees in 1763. He is credited with dividing his farm into lots that could be laid out into a city. He called the tract "Lansingburgh." It also was known as the "New City."

Following a survey of the land made in June 1771 by Joseph Blanchard, a list of the owners of the original lots within it has appeared in a number of traditional sources. The owners included a number of Albany city residents. One version of it is reproduced below:

- Among those who purchased lots in 1770 and 1771, who already owned property there, were the following: William Adams, Evert Bancker, Flores Bancker, John Barber [not 7202], Abram Blaau, Waldran Blaau, Jonathan Brewer, Abram Brinkerhoff, Peter Curtinus, John Dunbar, Benjamin French, Aldab Funda, John D. Fonda, Samuel Halstead, Anne Hamersley, Moses Holt, Isaac Lansingh, Isaac H. Lansingh, Jacob A. Lansing, Alexander McLean, Mayckie McCoy, Charles Meal, Anthony Rutgers, Eleanor Taylor, Jonathan Wickwire and Robert Yates.

Other purchasers from that time up to 1790 were: James Abeel, James Boggs, jr., Joshua Burnham, James Caldwell, Caleb Carr, Joy Chambers, Jeremiah Comstock, William Conklin, Ebenezer Cooley, Cornelius Cooper, Volkert Dawson, Barnet De Clyn, Peter Goewey, Amos Graves, Thomas Hiatt, Ezra Hitchcock, Lyman Hitchcock, Peter Hogel, Jeremiah Hoogland, Horace Seymour, Nathaniel Jacobs, Ignis Kipp, Thomas Knight, Francis Lansingh, Franciscus Lansingh, Hendrick Lansingh, Levinus Lansingh, Hugh McCarty, William McGill, Patrick McNiff, James MeMurray, James Moran, Agnes Murray, William Nichols, Abram Nelson, Aaron Noble, Joseph Norris, Abram J. Ouderkirk, Platt & Williams, Charles Reed, Maria Rosa, William Scott, Cornelius S. Sebring, Jonathan Sewers, John Skiffington, Patrick Smith, Smith & Whitney, Benjamin Snyder, Barent Ten Eyck, John Tibbit, John Tiliman, Margaret Tillman, James Thomson, Robert Thompson, Henry Van Arnum, John Van Cortland, Cornelius Vandenburgh, John Van Rensselaer, James Van Varick, Abram K. Van Vieck, Gerrit Van Wie, Catharine Van Wie, Aaron Ward, Ralph Watson, Frederick Weaver, Peter Weaver, John De Witt, Jonathan Wood, Wynkoop & Ten Eyck, Peter W. Yates, and Joseph Young.

By 1791, the village of Lansingburgh was a well-known part of newly created Rensselaer County. It was erected as a town in 1807.