Trinity Church Cemetery
Trinity Church Cemetery consists of three separate burial grounds associated with Trinity Church in Manhattan, New York, USA. The first was established in the Churchyard located at 74 Trinity Place at Wall Street and Broadway. In 1842, the church, running out of space in its churchyard, established Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum in Upper Manhattan between Broadway and Riverside Drive, at the Chapel of the Intercession (now The Church of the Intercession), formerly the location of John James Audubon's estate. A third burial place is the Churchyard of St. Paul's Chapel. The burial grounds have been the final resting place for many historic figures since the Churchyard cemetery opened in 1697. A non-denominational cemetery, it is listed in the United States National Register of Historic Places and is the only remaining active cemetery in Manhattan. There are two bronze plaques marking the spot where some of the fiercest fighting of the Revolutionary War occurred during the Battle of Washington Heights.
Burials in Trinity ChurchyardJohn Alsop (1724-1794), delegate to the Continental CongressJohn Jacob Astor (1763-1848) businessman, founder of the Astor family of New YorkWilliam Bradford (1660-1752), colonial printerRichard Churcher (1676-1681), whose grave is marked by the oldest carved gravestone in New York CityRobert Fulton (1765-1815), inventorAlbert Gallatin (1761-1849), United States Congressman, statesmanHoratio Gates (1727-1806), Revolutionary War generalAlexander Hamilton (1755-1804), first Treasurer of the United States, founder of The Bank of New YorkElizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757-1854), wife of Alexander HamiltonJohn Sloss Hobart (1738-1805), United States SenatorJames Lawrence (1781-1813), naval heroFrancis Lewis (1713-1802), signer of the Declaration of IndependenceWalter Livingston (1740-1797), delegate to the Continental CongressLuther Martin (1744-1826), delegate to the Continental CongressJohn Jordan Morgan (1770-1849), United States CongressmanThomas Jefferson Oakley (1783-1857), United States CongressmanJohn Morin Scott (1730-1784), delegate to the Continental CongressGeorge Templeton Strong (1820-1875), diarist, abolitionist, lawyerSilas Talbot (1750-1813), naval commodore, second captain of the USS ConstitutionJohn Watts (1749-1836), United States CongressmanFranklin Wharton (1767-1818), Marine Corps commandantHugh Williamson (1735-1802), signer of the United States ConstitutionJohn Peter Zenger (1697-1746), newspaper publisher whose libel trial helped establish the right to a free press Burials in Trinity Church Cemetery and MausoleumGeneral William Alexander (1726-1783), General at the Battle of Long IslandCaroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor (1830-1908), socialiteJohn Jacob Astor III (1822-1890), philanthropist John Jacob Astor IV (1864-1912), businessman killed in the sinking of the TitanicJohn Jacob Astor V (1912-1992)Madeleine Force Astor (1893-1940), socialite, Titanic survivorJohn James Audubon (1785-1851) artistJohn Winthrop Chanler (1826-1877), United States CongressmanWilliam Astor Chanler (1867-1934), United States CongressmanWilliam Augustus Darling (1817-1895), United States CongressmanAlfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (1845-1912), lecturer on the life of his father, Charles DickensJohn Adams Dix, (1798-1879) soldier, United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York, statesman Edward Haight (1817-1885), United States CongressmanEliza Jumel (1775-1865), a prostitute who became the toast of New York societyClement Clarke Moore (1779-1863), pastor to whom authorship of A Visit from St. Nicholas has traditionally been attributedSamuel Seabury (1873-1958), New York City JudgeFernando Wood (1812-1881), Mayor of New York City
Burials in the Churchyard of St. Paul's ChapelGeorge Frederick Cooke (1756-1812), actor whose skull was used in Edwin Booth's production of HamletEtienne Marie Bechet Sieur de Rochefontaine (d. 1798), Revolutionary War Continental Army officer.John Holt (1721-1784), publisher Richard Montgomery (1738-1775) Major General in the Continental Army
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