The parish of Trinity Church has three separate burial grounds associated with it in

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. The first, Trinity Churchyard, is located in

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at 74 Trinity Place, near

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and Broadway. Alexander Hamilton,

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, and Robert Fulton are buried in the downtown Trinity Churchyard. The second Trinity parish burial ground is the

St. Paul's Chapel St. Paul's Chapel is a chapel building of Trinity Church, an episcopal parish, located at 209 Broadway, between Fulton Street and Vesey Street, in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1766, it is the oldest surviving church building in Man ...

Churchyard, which is also located in lower Manhattan (roughly ), six blocks north of Trinity Church. It was established in 1766. Both of these churchyards are closed to new burials. Trinity's third place of burial, Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum, located in

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, is one of the few active burial sites in Manhattan. Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum is listed on the National Register of Historic places and is the burial place of notable people including

John James Audubon John James Audubon (born Jean-Jacques Rabin; April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851) was an American self-trained artist, naturalist, and ornithologist. His combined interests in art and ornithology turned into a plan to make a complete pictoria ...

, John Jacob Astor IV, Mayor Edward I. Koch, Governor

John Adams Dix John Adams Dix (July 24, 1798 – April 21, 1879) was an American politician and military officer who was Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York and Union major general during the Civil War. He was notable for arresting the pro-South ...

, Ralph Ellison, and Eliza Jumel. In 1823 all burials south of Canal Street became forbidden by New York City due to city crowding, yellow fever, and other public health fears. After considering locations in the Bronx and portions of the then-new

Green-Wood Cemetery Green-Wood Cemetery is a cemetery in the western portion of Brooklyn, New York City. The cemetery is located between South Slope/ Greenwood Heights, Park Slope, Windsor Terrace, Borough Park, Kensington, and Sunset Park, and lies several ...

, in 1842 Trinity Parish purchased the plot of land now bordered by 153rd street, 155th street, Amsterdam, and Riverside to establish the Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum. The cemetery is located beside the Chapel of the Intercession that Audubon co-founded in 1846, but this chapel is no longer part of Trinity parish. James Renwick, Jr., is the architect of Trinity Church Cemetery and further updates were made by

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. The uptown cemetery is also the center of the Heritage Rose District of New York City. A no-longer-extant Trinity Parish burial ground was the Old Saint John's Burying Ground for St. John's Chapel. This location is bounded by Hudson, Leroy and Clarkson streets near Hudson Square. It was in use from 1806 to 1852 with over 10,000 burials, mostly poor and young. In 1897, it was turned into St. John's Park, with most of the burials left in place. The park was later renamed Hudson Park, and is now

James J. Walker Park James J. Walker Park is a public park in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City, New York. The approximately park, is bound by Varick Street, the St. Luke's Place section of Leroy Street, Hudson Street and Clar ...

. (This park is different from a separate

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, a former private park and residential block approximately one mile to the south that now serves as part of the Holland Tunnel access.)

Notable burials

Trinity Churchyard (Broadway and Wall Street)

* William Alexander, Lord Stirling (1726–1783), Continental Army major general during the

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* John Alsop (1724–1794),

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delegate *

William Bayard Jr. William Bayard Jr. (1761 – September 18, 1826) was a prominent New York City banker and a member of the Society of the New York Hospital. He was a close friend to Alexander Hamilton, who was taken to his Greenwich Village home after his fa ...

(1761–1826), banker *

William Berczy William von Moll Berczy (December 10, 1744 – February 5, 1813) was a German-born Upper Canada pioneer and painter. He is considered one of the co-founders of the Town of York, Upper Canada, now Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Biography Berczy ...

(1744–1813),

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painter and pioneer buried in unmarked grave and name recorded as William Burksay * William Bradford (1660–1752), colonial American printer * Richard Churcher (1676–1681), a child whose grave is marked with the oldest carved gravestone in New York City * Angelica Schuyler Church (1756–1814), daughter of Philip Schuyler, sister of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton and Margarita Schuyler Van Rensselaer * Michael Cresap (1742–1775), frontiersman * James De Lancey (1703–1760), Colonial Governor of New York * John R. Fellows (1832–1896), U.S. representative * Robert Fulton (1765–1815), inventor of the first commercially successful steamboat *

(1761–1849), U.S. congressman, Secretary of the Treasury, founder of

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Horatio Gates Horatio Lloyd Gates (July 26, 1727April 10, 1806) was a British-born American army officer who served as a general in the Continental Army during the early years of the Revolutionary War. He took credit for the American victory in the Battles ...

(1727–1806), Continental Army general during the American Revolution * James Gordon (1735–1783), 80th Regiment of Foot (Royal Edinburgh Volunteers) Lieutenant Colonel *

Aaron Hackley, Jr. Aaron Hackley Jr. (May 6, 1783 – December 28, 1868) was a U.S. Representative from New York and a slaveholder. Born in Wallingford, Connecticut, Hackley attended the public schools, and graduated from Williams College in 1805. He moved to Herk ...

(1783–1868), U.S. representative * Alexander Hamilton (1755/57–1804), American revolutionary patriot and

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; first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, and a signer of the United States Constitution, husband of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton * Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (1757–1854), co-founder and deputy director of New York's first private orphanage, now Graham Windham * Philip Hamilton (1782–1801), 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 Margarita "Peggy" Schuyler Van Rensselaer (September 19, 1758 – March 14, 1801) was the third daughter of Continental Army General Philip Schuyler. She was the wife of Stephen Van Rensselaer III, sister of Angelica Schuyler Church, Philip Jere ...

* John Sloss Hobart (1738–1805), U.S. senator * William Hogan (1792–1874), U.S. congressman *

James Lawrence James Lawrence (October 1, 1781 – June 4, 1813) was an officer of the United States Navy. During the War of 1812, he commanded in a single-ship action against , commanded by Philip Broke. He is probably best known today for his last words, ...

(1781–1813), naval hero during the

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* Francis Lewis (1713–1802), signer of the Declaration of Independence *

Walter Livingston Walter Livingston (November 27, 1740 – May 14, 1797) was an American merchant, lawyer and politician. Early life He was a son of Robert Livingston (1708–1790), 3rd Lord of Livingston Manor, and Maria Thong Livingston (1711–1765), a grandd ...

(1740–1797), delegate to the Continental Congress * Luther Martin (1744–1826), delegate to the Continental Congress *

Charles McKnight Charles McKnight (October 10, 1750 – November 16, 1791) was an American physician during and after the American Revolutionary War. He served as a surgeon and physician in the Hospital Department of the Continental Army under General George W ...

(1750–1791), Continental Army surgeon * John Jordan Morgan (1770–1849), U.S. representative * Hercules Mulligan (1740-1825), spy during the American Revolution, friend of Alexander Hamilton *

Thomas Jackson Oakley Thomas Jackson Oakley (November 10, 1783 – May 11, 1857) was a New York attorney, politician, and judge. He served as a United States representative from 1813 to 1815, and from 1827 to 1828, and as New York State Attorney General from 1819 to ...

(1783–1857), U.S. representative * John Morin Scott (1730–1784), Continental Congress delegate, Revolutionary War general, first

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George Templeton Strong George Templeton Strong (January 26, 1820 – July 21, 1875) was an American lawyer, musician and diarist. His 2,250-page diary, discovered in the 1930s, provides a striking personal account of life in the 19th century, especially during the eve ...

(1820–1875), diarist, abolitionist, lawyer *

Robert Swartwout The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, h ...

(1779–1848), brigadier general, Quartermaster general of the

Silas Talbot Captain Silas Talbot (January 11, 1751June 30, 1813) was an American military officer and slave trader. He served in the Continental Army and Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War, and is most famous for commanding from 1799 t ...

(1750–1813), U.S. Navy commodore, second captain of the USS ''Constitution'' * John Watts (1749–1836), U.S. representative *

Franklin Wharton Franklin Wharton (July 23, 1767 – September 1, 1818) was the third Commandant of the United States Marine Corps. Biography Wharton was born into a prominent Philadelphia, Pennsylvania family, the son of Joseph Wharton. He had forsaken a succ ...

(1767–1818),

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, 1804–1818 * Hugh Williamson (1735–1802), American politician, signer of the

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* John Peter Zenger (1697–1746), 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 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." 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. Historian

Edwin G. Burrows Edwin G. "Ted" Burrows (May 15, 1943 – May 4, 2018) was a Distinguished Professor of History at Brooklyn College. He is the co-author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning '' Gotham: A History of New York City to 1898'' (1998), and author of ''Forgotte ...

explains how the controversy related to a proposal to build a public street through the churchyard.

Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum (770 Riverside Drive)

* Amsale Aberra (1954–2018), Ethiopian-American fashion designer and entrepreneur * Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968), writer, socialite * Rita de Acosta Lydig (1876–1929), socialite *

John Jacob Astor John Jacob Astor (born Johann Jakob Astor; July 17, 1763 – March 29, 1848) was a German-American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor who made his fortune mainly in a fur trade monopoly, by smuggling opium into China, and ...

(1763–1848) business magnate, progenitor of the

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of New York * John Jacob Astor III (1822–1890), financier and philanthropist * John Jacob Astor IV (1864–1912), millionaire killed in the sinking of the ''

Titanic RMS ''Titanic'' was a British passenger liner, operated by the White Star Line, which sank in the North Atlantic Ocean on 15 April 1912 after striking an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City, Unite ...

'' * John Jacob Astor VI (1912–1992), shipping magnate *

William Backhouse Astor, Sr. William Backhouse Astor Sr. (September 19, 1792 – November 24, 1875) was an American business magnate who inherited most of his father John Jacob Astor's fortune. He worked as a partner in his father's successful export business. His massive in ...

(1792–1875), real estate businessman * William Backhouse Astor, Jr. (1829–1892), businessman and race horse breeder/owner *

(1785–1851), ornithologist and naturalist * Will Barnet (1911-2012), artist * Estelle Bennett (1941–2009), member of the 1960s girl group

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* John Romeyn Brodhead (1814–1873) Historian of early colonial New York *

John J. Cisco John J. Cisco (April 26, 1806 - March 23, 1884), was a merchant in the dry goods business in New York City, who retired at the age of thirty-six with a fortune. Some eleven years later, in 1853 President Franklin Pierce appointed Cisco to the off ...

(1806–1884), Assistant Treasurer of the United States under Presidents Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan, and Abraham Lincoln * John Winthrop Chanler (1826–1877), United States Congressman *

Robert Winthrop Chanler Robert Winthrop Chanler (February 22, 1872 – October 24, 1930) was an American artist and member of the Astor and Dudley–Winthrop families. A designer and muralist, Chanler received much of his art training in France at the École des Beaux- ...

(1872–1930), muralist and designer *

William Astor Chanler William Astor "Willie" Chanler (June 11, 1867 – March 4, 1934) was an American soldier, explorer, and politician who served as U.S. Representative from New York. He was a son of John Winthrop Chanler. After spending several years exploring East ...

(1867–1934), United States Congressman * Cadwallader D. Colden (1769-1834), Abolitionist

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(1806-1834); Mayor of New York City (1818-1821) *

William Augustus Darling William Augustus Darling (December 27, 1817 – May 26, 1895) was a U.S. Representative from New York. Biography Darling was born in Newark, New Jersey, and attended the local schools. He moved to New York City, where he was employed as a clerk ...

(1817–1895), United States Congressman * Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (1845–1912), lecturer on the life of his father,

Charles Dickens Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian e ...

, (1798–1879) soldier, United States Senator, Secretary of the Treasury, Governor of New York, statesman * Ralph Ellison, (1914–1994), novelist, critic, and educator, author of ''Invisible Man'' * Henry Erben (1832–1909), rear admiral of the United States Navy, serving in the American Civil War and Spanish-American War *

Herman D. Farrell Jr. Herman Daniel “Denny” Farrell Jr. (February 4, 1932 – May 26, 2018) was an American politician from New York. He was a Democratic member of the New York State Assembly representing the Manhattan neighborhoods of West Harlem, Inwood and W ...

(1932–2018), New York State Assembly member * Madeleine Talmage Force (1893–1940), socialite, ''

'' survivor, second wife of John Jacob Astor IV *

Bertram Goodhue Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue (April 28, 1869 – April 23, 1924) was an American architect celebrated for his work in Gothic Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival design. He also designed notable typefaces, including Cheltenham and Merrymount for ...

(1869–1924), American architect and typeface designer, designed the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago *

Cuba Gooding Sr. Cuba Mark Gooding Sr. (April 27, 1944 – April 20, 2017) was an American singer. He was the most successful lead singer of the soul group The Main Ingredient, replacing former lead singer Donald McPherson who was diagnosed with leukemia in ...

(1944–2017), singer and actor *

Edward Haight Edward is an English given name. It is derived from the Anglo-Saxon name ''Ēadweard'', composed of the elements '' ēad'' "wealth, fortune; prosperous" and '' weard'' "guardian, protector”. History The name Edward was very popular in Anglo-Sax ...

(1817–1885), United States Congressman * Katherine Corri Harris (1890–1927), American silent film actor *

Abraham Oakey Hall Abraham Oakey Hall (July 26, 1826 – October 7, 1898) was an American politician, lawyer, and writer. He served as Mayor of New York City, New York from 1869 to 1872 as a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat. Hall, known as "Elegant Oake ...

(1826–1898), Mayor of New York City *

Anthony Philip Heinrich Anthony Philip Heinrich (March 11, 1781 – May 3, 1861) was the first "full-time" American composer, and the most prominent before the American Civil War. He did not start composing until he was 36, after losing his business fortune in the N ...

(1781–1861), American composer and founding chair of the New York Philharmonic Society * Geoffrey Lamont Holder (1930–2014), Trinidadian-American actor, dancer, and choreographer, principle actor for the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in New York City, portrayed Baron Samedi in ''Live and Let Die'' * David Hosack (1769–1835), physician, botanist, educator, tended to Alexander Hamilton's mortal wound * Charles C. Ingham (1797–1863), Irish-American portraitist * Eliza Jumel (1775–1865), second wife of Aaron Burr * Dita Hopkins Kinney (1855–1921) first superintendent of United States Army Nurse Corps (1901-1909) * Edward I. Koch (1924–2013), Mayor of New York City (1978-1989) *

John Lewis John Robert Lewis (February 21, 1940 – July 17, 2020) was an American politician and civil rights activist who served in the United States House of Representatives for from 1987 until his death in 2020. He participated in the 1960 Nashvill ...

(1920–2001), American jazz pianist and founder of the Modern Jazz Quartet *

Robert O. Lowery Robert Oliver Lowery (April 20, 1916 – July 24, 2001) was sworn in as the 21st New York City Fire Commissioner by Mayor John V. Lindsay on January 1, 1966, and held that position until his resignation on September 29, 1973. Biography Lowery le ...

(1916–2001) first African-American New York City Fire Commissioner (1966-1973) * George Malloy (1920–2008) pianist, accompanied Camilla Williams singing "

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", preceding Martin Luther King Jr. delivering his " I Have a Dream" speech, during the August 1963

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* Robert Bowne Minturn (1805-1866) prominent New York merchant, philanthropist; shipper owner of Flying Cloud *

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(1799–1870), U.S. Congressman * Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863), clergyman, attributed author of Christmas poem '' A Visit from St. Nicholas'' *

Jerry Orbach Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor and singer, described at the time of his death as "one of the last'' bona fide'' leading men of the Broadway musical and global celebrity on television" and a ...

(1935–2004), actor *

Samuel B. Ruggles Samuel Bulkley Ruggles (April 11, 1799 – August 28, 1881) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1838, and a Canal Commissioner from 1839 to 1842 and in 1858. As a large landhol ...

(1799–1881), politician, member of the New York State Assembly, donated land used to create Gramercy Park in New York City * Francis Shubael Smith (1819–1887), co-founder of

Street & Smith Street & Smith or Street & Smith Publications, Inc. was a New York City publisher specializing in inexpensive paperbacks and magazines referred to as dime novels and pulp magazine, pulp fiction. They also published comic books and sporting year ...

publishing * Caroline Webster Schermerhorn (1830–1908), socialite, doyenne of

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New York society *

Thomas Fielding Scott Thomas Fielding Scott (March 12, 1807July 14, 1867) was the first missionary Episcopal Bishop of Washington and Oregon territories. Early life Scott was born in Iredell County, North Carolina, the son of James Scott and Rebekkah Worke Scott. ...

(1807–1867), first missionary Episcopal Bishop of Washington and Oregon * Samuel Seabury (1873–1958), New York City Judge, not to be confused with the known rival of Alexander Hamilton *

Frederick Clarke Withers Frederick Clarke Withers (4 February 1828 – 7 January 1901) was an English architect in America, especially renowned for his Gothic Revival ecclesiastical designs. For portions of his professional career, he partnered with fellow immigrant Cal ...

(1828–1901), English-American architect in the High Victorian Gothic style * Fernando Wood (1812–1881), Mayor of New York City

St. Paul's Chapel Churchyard (Broadway at Fulton Street)

George Frederick Cooke George Frederick Cooke (17 April 1756 in London – 26 September 1812 in New York City) was an English actor. As famous for his erratic habits as for his acting, he was largely responsible for initiating the romantic style in acting that was l ...

(1756–1812), actor *

Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont (sometimes spelled Bellamont, 1636 – 5 March 1700/01In the Julian calendar, then in use in England, the year began on 25 March. To avoid confusion with dates in the Gregorian calendar, then in us ...

(1636–1701), British colonial governor * John Holt (1721–1784), publisher * William Houstoun (1755–1813), Continental Congress delegate for whom

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was named *

Richard Montgomery Richard Montgomery (2 December 1738 – 31 December 1775) was an Irish soldier who first served in the British Army. He later became a major general in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and he is most famous for ...

(1738–1775) Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolution *

Stephen Rochefontaine Stephen Rochefontaine (born Étienne Nicolas Marie Béchet, Sieur de Rochefontaine; February 20, 1755 – January 30, 1814) was a French-born American military engineer who served as the Commandant of the Corps of Artillerists and Engineers fro ...

(1755–1814), Continental Army officer during the American Revolution

Notable burials

Trinity Churchyard (Broadway and Wall Street)

Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum (770 Riverside Drive)

St. Paul's Chapel Churchyard (Broadway at Fulton Street)

References

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