Thank you Hugh for that info. I suppose I should visit the Senate house, as I have never been there. It always seems we look past the attractions in our own neighborhood. Thanks again......Jim Hugh Mac Dougall wrote: > Before moving definitively to Albany in 1797, the New York State > Legislature met variously in Kingston, Poughkeepsie, Albany, and (after the > British evacuation) New York City. It is my understanding that this did > not, at least before 1797, imply that one or other location was the > "capitol." Kingston became the site of the first Assembly because of the > British occupation of New York City.