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==Notable burials== [[Image:Robert Fulton Grave.jpg|thumb|upright|right|A [[cenotaph]] marker erected by the [[American Society of Mechanical Engineers]] honoring Robert Fulton at the Trinity Churchyard.]] [[Image:Alexander Hamilton Grave.JPG|thumb|upright|right|A gravemarker erected by the Corporation of Trinity Church for [[Alexander Hamilton]].]] ===Trinity Churchyard (Broadway and Wall Street)=== * [[William Alexander, Lord Stirling]] (1726β1783), Continental Army major general during the [[American Revolution]] * [[John Alsop]] (1724β1794), [[Continental Congress]] delegate * [[William Bayard Jr.]] (1761β1826), banker * [[William Berczy]] (1744β1813), [[Canadian]] painter and pioneer buried in unmarked grave and name recorded as William Burksay * [[William Bradford (1663β1752)|William Bradford]] (1660β1752), colonial American printer * Richard Churcher (1676β1681), a child whose grave is marked with the oldest carved [[gravestone]] in New York City * [[Angelica Schuyler Church]] (1756β1814), daughter of [[Philip Schuyler]], sister of [[Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton]] and [[Margarita Schuyler Van Rensselaer]] * [[Michael Cresap]] (1742β1775), frontiersman * [[James De Lancey]] (1703β1760), Colonial Governor of New York * [[John R. Fellows]] (1832β1896), U.S. representative * [[Robert Fulton]] (1765β1815), inventor of the first commercially successful steamboat * [[Albert Gallatin]] (1761β1849), U.S. congressman, [[Secretary of the Treasury]], founder of [[New York University]] * [[Horatio Gates]] (1727β1806), Continental Army general during the American Revolution * [[James Gordon (British Army officer, died 1783)|James Gordon]] (1735β1783), 80th Regiment of Foot (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers) Lieutenant Colonel * [[Aaron Hackley, Jr.]] (1783β1868), U.S. representative * [[Alexander Hamilton]] (1755/57β1804), American revolutionary patriot and [[Founding Fathers of the United States|Founding Father]]; first U.S. [[Secretary of the Treasury]], and a signer of the [[United States Constitution]], husband of [[Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton]] * [[Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton]] (1757β1854), co-founder and deputy director of New York's first private orphanage,<ref>Chernow, Ron (March 29, 2005). "Epilogue". Alexander Hamilton. Penguin. {{ISBN|9781101200858}}.</ref> now [[Graham Windham]] * [[Philip Hamilton]] (1782β1801), first son of [[Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton]] and [[Alexander Hamilton]], grandson of U.S. General [[Philip Schuyler]], nephew of [[Angelica Schuyler Church]] and [[Margarita Schuyler Van Rensselaer]] * [[John Sloss Hobart]] (1738β1805), U.S. senator * [[William Hogan (New York)|William Hogan]] (1792β1874), U.S. congressman * [[James Lawrence]] (1781β1813), naval hero during the [[War of 1812]] * [[Francis Lewis]] (1713β1802), signer of the Declaration of Independence * [[Walter Livingston]] (1740β1797), delegate to the Continental Congress * [[Luther Martin]] (1744β1826), delegate to the Continental Congress * [[Charles McKnight]] (1750β1791), [[Continental Army]] surgeon * [[John Jordan Morgan]] (1770β1849), U.S. representative * [[Hercules Mulligan]] (1740β1825), spy during the American Revolution, friend of Alexander Hamilton * [[Thomas Jackson Oakley]] (1783β1857), U.S. representative * [[John Morin Scott]] (1730β1784), Continental Congress delegate, [[American Revolutionary War|Revolutionary War]] general, first [[secretary of state of New York]] * [[George Templeton Strong]] (1820β1875), diarist, abolitionist, lawyer * [[Robert Swartwout]] (1779β1848), brigadier general, [[Quartermaster general]] of the [[War of 1812]] * [[Silas Talbot]] (1750β1813), U.S. Navy commodore, second captain of the [[USS Constitution|USS ''Constitution'']] * [[John Watts (New York politician)|John Watts]] (1749β1836), U.S. representative * [[Franklin Wharton]] (1767β1818), [[Commandant of the United States Marine Corps|Commandant of the Marine Corps]], 1804β1818 * [[Hugh Williamson]] (1735β1802), American politician, signer of the [[Constitution of the United States]] * [[John Peter Zenger]] (1697β1746), newspaper publisher whose libel trial helped establish the right to a free press In the northeast corner stands the '''Soldiers' Monument''', with a plaque reading: "At a meeting of Citizens held at the City Hall of the City of New York June 8, 1852: It was resolved That the Erection of a becoming Monument with appropriate inscriptions by Trinity Church to the Memory of those great and good Men who died whilst in Captivity in the old [[Sugar house prisons in New York City|Sugar House]] and were interred in Trinity Church Yard in this City will be an act gratifying not only to the attendants of this Meeting but to Every American Citizen."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/sheenachi/3310662772/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191216233703/https://www.flickr.com/photos/sheenachi/3310662772/ |archive-date=December 16, 2019 |url-status=live |date=December 15, 2008 |author-first=Sheena |author-last=Chi |title=Trinity ChurchβSoldiers' MonumentβMemorial for Unknown Revolutionary War Heroes |access-date=December 16, 2019}} This inscription is on the south side. An inscription on the east side is more general: "Sacred to the memory of those brave and good Men who died whilst imprisoned in this City for their devotion to the cause of American independence." (Burrows, cited below, p. 230 (caption); photos at Find a Grave, cited below)</ref> The claim those prisoners are buried in Trinity Churchyard is disputed by Charles I. Bushnell, who argued in 1863 that Trinity Church would not have accepted them because it supported Great Britain.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/stream/narrativeoflifea00bush?ref=ol#page/n9/mode/2up |title=A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Levi Hanford, a Soldier of the Revolution |first=Charles I. |last=Bushnell |year=1863 |place=New York |publisher=[privately printed] |pages=66β70 (note 27)}} This note was also published separately as a pamphlet with its own title: {{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/claimoftrinitych00bush/page/n6 |title=The Claim of Trinity Church to Having Furnished Burial Places For Some of the American Prisoners, Who Died in the Old Sugar House Prison, in Liberty Street, During the Revolution, Examined and Refuted |first=Charles Ira |last=Bushnell |year=1863 |place=New York |publisher=[privately published]}}</ref> Historian [[Edwin G. Burrows]] explains how the controversy related to a proposal to build a public street through the churchyard.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wRypKrzKxA0C |title=Forgotten Patriots |isbn=978-0-465-00835-3 |year=2008 |publisher=Basic Books |first=Edwin G. |last=Burrows |author-link=Edwin G. Burrows |place=New York |pages=228β30}}</ref> ===Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum (770 Riverside Drive)=== [[File:Audubon Cross.jpg|alt=Cross erected in 1893 by the New York Academy of Sciences in honor of John James Audubon.|thumb|Cross erected in 1893 by the [[New York Academy of Sciences]] in honor of [[John James Audubon]].]] [[File:Sands and The Bridge4.jpg|alt=A present-day view of the cemetery with the George Washington Bridge visible in the background.|thumb|A present-day view of the cemetery with the [[George Washington Bridge]] visible in the background.]] [[Image:Alfred-Dickens-grave1.jpg|thumb|right|The grave of [[Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens|Alfred Dickens]] in Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum ]] * [[Amsale Aberra]] (1954β2018), Ethiopian-American fashion designer and entrepreneur * [[Mercedes de Acosta]] (1893β1968), writer, socialite * [[Rita de Acosta Lydig]] (1876β1929), socialite * [[Caroline Schermerhorn Astor|Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor]] (1830β1908), socialite, doyenne of [[Gilded Age]] New York society * [[John Jacob Astor]] (1763β1848) business magnate, progenitor of the [[Astor family]] of New York * [[John Jacob Astor III]] (1822β1890), financier and philanthropist * [[John Jacob Astor IV]] (1864β1912), millionaire killed in the sinking of the ''[[RMS Titanic|Titanic]]'' * [[John Jacob Astor VI]] (1912β1992), shipping magnate * [[William Backhouse Astor, Sr.]] (1792β1875), real estate businessman * [[William Backhouse Astor, Jr.]] (1829β1892), businessman and race horse breeder/owner * [[John James Audubon]] (1785β1851), ornithologist and naturalist * [[Will Barnet]] (1911β2012), artist * [[Estelle Bennett]] (1941β2009), member of the 1960s girl group [[The Ronettes]] * [[John Romeyn Brodhead]] (1814β1873), historian of early colonial New York * [[John J. Cisco]] (1806β1884), Assistant Treasurer of the United States under presidents Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln * [[John Winthrop Chanler]] (1826β1877), United States Congressman * [[Robert Winthrop Chanler]] (1872β1930), muralist and designer * [[William A. Chanler|William Astor Chanler]] (1867β1934), United States Congressman * [[Cadwallader D. Colden]] (1769β1834), abolitionist ([[New York Manumission Society]]) (1806β1834); Mayor of New York City (1818β1821) * [[William Augustus Darling]] (1817β1895), United States Congressman * [[Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens]] (1845β1912), lecturer on the life of his father, [[Charles Dickens]] * [[John Adams Dix]] (1798β1879), soldier, United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York, statesman * [[Ralph Waldo Ellison|Ralph Ellison]], (1914β1994), novelist, critic, and educator, author of ''Invisible Man'' * [[Henry Erben]] (1832β1909), rear admiral of the United States Navy, serving in the American Civil War and Spanish-American War * [[Herman D. Farrell Jr.]] (1932β2018), New York State Assembly member * [[Madeleine Astor|Madeleine Talmage Force]] (1893β1940), socialite, ''[[RMS Titanic|Titanic]]'' survivor, second wife of John Jacob Astor IV * [[Bertram Goodhue]] (1869β1924), American architect and typeface designer, designed the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago * [[Cuba Gooding Sr.]] (1944β2017), singer and actor * [[Edward Haight (politician)|Edward Haight]] (1817β1885), United States Congressman * [[Katherine Corri Harris]] (1890β1927), American silent film actor * [[A. Oakey Hall|Abraham Oakey Hall]] (1826β1898), Mayor of New York City * [[Anthony Heinrich|Anthony Philip Heinrich]] (1781β1861), American composer and founding chair of the New York Philharmonic Society * [[Geoffrey Holder|Geoffrey Lamont Holder]] (1930β2014), Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, and choreographer, principal actor for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York City, portrayed Baron Samedi in ''Live and Let Die'' * [[David Hosack]] (1769β1835), physician, botanist, educator, tended to Alexander Hamilton's mortal wound * [[Charles C. Ingham]] (1797β1863), Irish-American portraitist * [[Eliza Jumel]] (1775β1865), second wife of [[Aaron Burr]] * [[Dita Hopkins Kinney]] (1855β1921), first superintendent of [[United States Army Nurse Corps]] (1901β1909) * [[Edward I. Koch]] (1924β2013), Mayor of New York City (1978β1989)<ref name="Koch">{{cite news|first=Mary Frances|last=Schjonberg|date=February 4, 2013|title=Former New York Mayor Ed Koch laid to rest in Trinity plot|work=Episcopal News Service|url=http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2013/02/04/new-york-mayor-ed-koch-laid-to-rest-in-trinity-plot/|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130206233110/http://episcopaldigitalnetwork.com/ens/2013/02/04/new-york-mayor-ed-koch-laid-to-rest-in-trinity-plot/|archive-date=February 6, 2013}}</ref> * [[John Lewis (pianist)|John Lewis]] (1920β2001), American jazz pianist and founder of the Modern Jazz Quartet * [[Robert O. Lowery]] (1916β2001), first African-American New York City Fire Commissioner (1966β1973) * [[George Malloy]] (1920β2008), pianist, accompanied [[Camilla Williams]] singing "[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]", preceding [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] delivering his "[[I Have a Dream]]" speech, during the August 1963 [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom]] * [[Robert Bowne Minturn]] (1805β1866), prominent New York merchant, philanthropist; shipper owner of [[Flying Cloud (clipper)|Flying Cloud]] * [[James Monroe (New York politician)|James Monroe]] (1799β1870), U.S. Congressman * [[Clement Clarke Moore]] (1779β1863), clergyman, attributed author of Christmas poem ''[[A Visit from St. Nicholas]]'' * [[Jerry Orbach]] (1935β2004), actor, singer<ref name=Gilvey>{{cite book|last=Gilvey|first=John Anthony|date=May 1, 2011|title=Jerry Orbach: Prince of the City β His Way From The Fantasticks to Law & Order|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kCGxXNWdZmAC&q=gilvey+law+and+order|publisher=Applause Theatre & Cinema Books|location=Milwaukee, Wisc.|isbn=978-1-42348-845-3|page=152}}</ref> * [[Samuel B. Ruggles]] (1799β1881), politician, member of the New York State Assembly, donated land used to create Gramercy Park in New York City * [[Francis Shubael Smith]] (1819β1887), co-founder of [[Street & Smith]] publishing * [[Thomas Fielding Scott]] (1807β1867), first missionary Episcopal Bishop of Washington and Oregon * [[Samuel Seabury (judge)|Samuel Seabury]] (1873β1958), New York City judge, not to be confused with [[Samuel Seabury|the known rival]] of [[Alexander Hamilton]] * [[Frederick Clarke Withers]] (1828β1901), English-American architect in the High Victorian Gothic style * [[Fernando Wood]] (1812β1881), Mayor of New York City [[File:St. Paul's Chapel, Manhattan (WTM by official-ly cool 037).jpg|thumb|upright|Gravestones in [[St. Paul's Chapel]] churchyard]] ===St. Paul's Chapel Churchyard (Broadway at Fulton Street)=== * [[George Frederick Cooke]] (1756β1812), actor * [[Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont]] (1636β1701), British colonial governor * [[John Holt (publisher)|John Holt]] (1721β1784), publisher * [[William Houstoun (lawyer)|William Houstoun]] (1755β1813), Continental Congress delegate for whom [[Houston Street]] was named * [[Richard Montgomery]] (1738β1775) Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolution * [[Stephen Rochefontaine]] (1755β1814), Continental Army officer during the American Revolution
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