Known as Duane's Bush in the late 18th century, the Schenectady County Forest occupies Great Lot 92, one of the 100 Great Lots created when James Duane divided and sold his 50,000 acres in 100-acre parcels. In the late 1700s, Duane, a lawyer and judge, inherited and purchased much of the surrounding land, and in 1765 the town of Duanesburg was formed as he advertised his Great Lots for sale in the New York Mercury. Great Lot 92 was leased to Elkanoah Rockwell, and in 1810 Jacob Nathaniel and Daniel Wiggins leased adjoining Great Lot 93 to the south. For unknown reasons, the Wiggins family established its burying ground on neighboring Great Lot 92 rather than on its own land, while the Rockwells were buried in other area cemeteries. The Wiggins Family Cemetery remains in the county forest. In 1872, Daniel Wiggins, son of the original tenant, acquired the lease to Great Lot 92 from the Rockwells after they had held the land for 80 years, and when he sold the lot that year he reserved the right to visit the burying ground and to bury there members of his own family and of his late father’s immediate family who wished to be buried there. The earliest gravestone is that of Daniel Wiggins, the father and original tenant, who died in 1823. According to information supplied by the Schenectady County Historical Society, the burial ground, once known as Fagan Park, contains 12 graves: two presumed children, seven presumed adults, and three fieldstone graves of undetermined age.