marker erected by the
American Society of Mechanical Engineers honoring Robert Fulton at the Trinity Churchyard. .
Trinity Churchyard (Broadway and Wall Street) •
William Alexander, Lord Stirling (1726–1783), Continental Army major general during the
American Revolution •
John Alsop (1724–1794),
Continental Congress delegate •
William Bayard Jr. (1761–1826), banker •
William Berczy (1744–1813),
Canadian 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 •
Albert Gallatin (1761–1849), U.S. congressman,
Secretary of the Treasury, founder of
New York University •
Horatio Gates (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. (1783–1868), U.S. representative •
Alexander Hamilton (1755/57–1804), American revolutionary patriot and
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 (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 •
John Sloss Hobart (1738–1805), U.S. senator •
William Hogan (1792–1874), U.S. congressman •
James Lawrence (1781–1813), naval hero during the
War of 1812 •
Francis Lewis (1713–1802), signer of the Declaration of Independence •
Walter Livingston (1740–1797), delegate to the Continental Congress •
Luther Martin (1744–1826), delegate to the Continental Congress •
Charles McKnight (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 (1783–1857), U.S. representative •
John Morin Scott (1730–1784), Continental Congress delegate,
Revolutionary War general, first
secretary of state of New York •
George Templeton Strong (1820–1875), diarist, abolitionist, lawyer •
Robert Swartwout (1779–1848), brigadier general,
Quartermaster general of the
War of 1812 •
Silas Talbot (1750–1813), U.S. Navy commodore, second captain of the
USS Constitution •
John Watts (1749–1836), U.S. representative •
Franklin Wharton (1767–1818),
Commandant of the Marine Corps, 1804–1818 •
Hugh Williamson (1735–1802), American politician, signer of the
Constitution of the United States •
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 explains how the controversy related to a proposal to build a public street through the churchyard.
Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum (770 Riverside Drive) in honor of
John James Audubon. visible in the background. in Trinity Church Cemetery and Mausoleum •
Amsale Aberra (1954–2018), Ethiopian-American fashion designer and entrepreneur •
Mercedes de Acosta (1893–1968), writer, socialite •
Rita de Acosta Lydig (1876–1929), socialite •
Caroline Webster Schermerhorn Astor (1830–1908), socialite, doyenne of
Gilded Age New York society •
John Jacob Astor (1763–1848) business magnate, progenitor of the
Astor family 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 •
John Jacob Astor VI (1912–1992), shipping magnate •
William Backhouse Astor, Sr. (1792–1875), real estate businessman •
William Backhouse Astor, Jr. (1829–1892), businessman and race horse breeder/owner •
John James Audubon (1785–1851), ornithologist and naturalist •
Will Barnet (1911–2012), artist •
Estelle Bennett (1941–2009), member of the 1960s girl group
The Ronettes •
John Romeyn Brodhead (1814–1873), historian of early colonial New York •
John J. Cisco (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 (1872–1930), muralist and designer •
William Astor Chanler (1867–1934), United States Congressman •
Cadwallader D. Colden (1769–1834), abolitionist (
New York Manumission Society) (1806–1834); Mayor of New York City (1818–1821) •
William Augustus Darling (1817–1895), United States Congressman •
Alfred D'Orsay Tennyson Dickens (1845–1912), lecturer on the life of his father,
Charles Dickens •
John Adams Dix (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. (1932–2018), New York State Assembly member •
Madeleine Talmage Force (1893–1940), socialite,
Titanic survivor, second wife of John Jacob Astor IV •
Bertram Goodhue (1869–1924), American architect and typeface designer, designed the Rockefeller Chapel at the University of Chicago •
Cuba Gooding Sr. (1944–2017), singer and actor •
Edward Haight (1817–1885), United States Congressman •
Katherine Corri Harris (1890–1927), American silent film actor •
Abraham Oakey Hall (1826–1898), Mayor of New York City •
Anthony Philip Heinrich (1781–1861), American composer and founding chair of the New York Philharmonic Society •
Geoffrey Lamont Holder (1930–2014), 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 (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 (1920–2001), American jazz pianist and founder of the Modern Jazz Quartet •
Robert O. Lowery (1916–2001), first African-American New York City Fire Commissioner (1966–1973) •
George Malloy (1920–2008), 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 (1805–1866), prominent New York merchant, philanthropist; shipper owner of
Flying Cloud •
James Monroe (1799–1870), U.S. Congressman •
Clement Clarke Moore (1779–1863), clergyman, attributed author of Christmas poem
A Visit from St. Nicholas •
Jerry Orbach (1935–2004), actor, singer •
Samuel B. Ruggles (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 publishing •
Thomas Fielding 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 (1828–1901), English-American architect in the High Victorian Gothic style •
Fernando Wood (1812–1881), Mayor of New York City churchyard
St. Paul's Chapel Churchyard (Broadway at Fulton Street) •
George Frederick Cooke (1756–1812), actor •
Richard Coote, 1st Earl of Bellomont (1636–1701), British colonial governor •
John Holt (1721–1784), publisher •
William Houstoun (1755–1813), Continental Congress delegate for whom
Houston Street was named •
Richard Montgomery (1738–1775) Major General in the Continental Army during the American Revolution •
Stephen Rochefontaine (1755–1814), Continental Army officer during the American Revolution ==References==