History of Trinity Church and its grave yard, Part 2

Author: Pollock, Allan
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: New York, A. Pollock
Number of Pages: 60


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Tomb of A. L. UNDERHILL. " HERE LIES THE REMAINS OF SARAH SCRIBA, WIFE OF GEORGE SCRIBA MERCHANT OF THIS CITY


WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE ON THE 24TH OF JUNE, 1792."


Col. George Scriba was a Colonel of Militia, and acted as escort to Gen. Washington at his inaugu- ration in 1778.


" Tomb of LANCASTER LUPTON, DIED 12TH AUGUST, 1803, AGED 28." Tomb of CHAS. McEVORS.


Tomb of JOHN MOORE.


Tomb of C. READE, 1721.


Tomb of J. LAWRENCE, 1818.


Tomb of the SCHIEFFELIN FAMILY, 1812.


There is a grave-stone at this point with this inscription :


"In memory of JOHN FOXCROFT, EsQ., late Agent for His Britanic Majesty's Packets, who de- parted this life May the 4th, 1790, aged 54 years."


Here is another singular stone :


" SCRIBA


1796."


The blank in the above should have been filled with " Frederick," which was his name. He was a brother of Col. George Scriba. Both were mer- chants in New York at that period. The name has passed from the recollection of the oldest inhabi- tants now living. Doubtless it was intended to


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have supplied the above deficiencies, but from some cause the stone has been left in a very singularly defective state.


Tomb of H. ANDERSON.


Tomb of HENRY POPE, et. al.


Tomb of JONN HAMILTON, 1792.


Tomb of RICHD NICHOLS, 1829.


Tomb of JACOB T. WALDEN, 1808.


Tomb of CLARKSON FAMILY, 1767.


Tomb of ANDREW HAMERSLEY, 1817.


Tomb of APTHORP, 1801.


Tomb of THOMAS LUDLOW, 1847.


Tomb of WM. RICKETS, 1720.


Tomb of CAPT. THOS. SEYMOUR, 1763.


Tomb of ELIAS DESBROSSES.


Tomb of H. & E. THODAY.


Tomb of JOHN CLARKE, 1790.


Tomb of JAMES NICHOLSON, ESQ., 1790,


Tomb of SUSANNA MARSHALL, 1788.


Tomb of JOHN IRELAND, 1787.


"Tomb of WALTER AND ROBERT C. LIVINGSTON, sons of Robert Livingston, of the Manor of Livingston."


Within this vault repose the remains of ROBERT FULTON. He was born 16th July, 1765, in the Town of Little Britain, Penn'a, in the same neigh- borhood in which Benjamin West (the great painter) was born. Fulton died in the City of New York, Feb. 24th, 1815, aged 50.


Tomb of THE MAXWELL FAMILY, 1790.


Tomb of HON. ALBERT GALLATIN.


He was a distinguished statesman and financier. He was a native of Switzerland; Secretary of the


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Treasury during three Presidential terms, and the only man of foreign birth who attained a seat in the Cabinet. He died in 1849, aged 88 years.


Tomb of ANTHONY L. BLEECKER, 1790.


Tomb of R. & S. MORRIS.


Tomb of PETER MACKELLA.


Tomb of JOHN ROBINSON, 1824.


Tomb of JAMES DESBROSSES, 1799.


Tomb of the MORGAN FAMILY, 1797.


Tomb of ELENORA KEEONE, 1786.


Tomb of CAPT. THOMAS RANDALL, 1806.


Tomb of RICHD GRIGGS, 1809.


Tomb of WALTER L. LAWRENCE.


Tomb of JOHN ATKINSON, 1799.


Tomb of JOHN RODGERS.


Tomb of ANTHONY ACHLEY.


"Vault built in 1738, in memory of JAMES ALEXANDER, and his descendants, by his son,


WILLIAM, EARL OF STIRLING,


and his daughters, MARY, wife of V. B. Livingston ; ELIZABETH, wife of John Stewart; CATHARINE, wife of Walter Rutherford; SUSANNA, wife of John Reid."


" The history of the so-called Earl of Stirling is in some points very remarkable. He was the only officer in the Continental army, (except those of foreign birth,) who bore a title-a fact which may be explained in this way.


" William Alexander was born in the City of New York, but he inherited a claim to an Earldom, and visited Scotland to contest it. He was unsuccess- ful, having spent a large portion of his fortune in this vain attempt.


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" When the Revolution began, he entered the American army, and as an act of courtesy was called Lord Stirling, after the lost Earldom. He had a command at Long Island, where he was taken prisoner, but was exchanged and re-entered the service.


" He was a devoted admirer of Washington, to whom he disclosed that cabal which disgraced the name of Conway. Lord Stirling was one of the oldest American officers, being Washington's senior by eleven years.


"He died in Albany, N. Y., in 1783, aged 53 years, and his body was brought to the City of New York and deposited in the Ancestral Tomb."


This is located at the end of the Church walk, close on the line of New Church Street.


Tomb of JACOB SHERROD, 1792.


Tomb of JOHN R. LIVINGSTON.


Tomb of ROBERT WATTS, 1814.


Tomb of WM. BAYARD, 1813. Tomb of JOHN WATTS.


The remains of GEN. PHIL. KEARNEY were deposited in the last tomb, (John Watts.) He was killed at the battle of Chantilly, Sept. 2d, 1862. "IN MEMORY OF ROBERT M. KEARNEY,


of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, who departed this life the 26th day of September, A. D., 1816, aged 35 years and 7 months."


Tomb of JAMES WOODHAMS.


Tomb of DAVID OGDEN, 1798.


Tomb of WM. ARMSTEAD, 1807.


Tomb of COL. MARINUS WILLETTS.


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He was a Colonel of Artillery under Washington, during the Revolutionary war, and after that was the fifth Mayor of New York.


Tomb of JOSEPH SHELLBURGER.


Tomb of COL. GEORGE BREWERTON, 1772


Tomb of E. WARNER & J. MOTT. Tomb of GABL WM. LUDLOW. Tomb of MARTIN HOFFMAN, 1784.


Tomb of ANDREW BARCLAY, 1762.


Tomb of P. MILLER, 1753.


Tomb of HUGH GAINS. BISHOP B. MOORE.


Tomb of REV. DR. OGILVIE. Tomb of JOHN SLIDELL.


On the southern side of the yard bordering on Rector Street, stands the marble monument erected to the memory of ALEXANDER HAMILTON. " THE CORPORATION OF TRINITY CHURCH HAS ERECTED THIS MONUMENT


IN TESTIMONY OF THEIR RESPECT FOR THE PATRIOT OF INCORRUPTIBLE INTEGRITY ; THE SOLDIER OF APPROVED VALOR, THE STATEMAN OF CONSUMMATE WISDOM, WHOSE TALENTS AND WISDOM WILL BE ADMIRED BY GRATEFUL POSTERITY


LONG AFTER THIS MARBLE SHALL HAVE MOULDERED INTO DUST. HE DIED JULY 12TH, 1804, AGED 47."


Hamilton's eldest son Philip, aged about 20 years, was also interred in this same plot of ground, about ten years before the death of his father. He was also a victim to the evil practice of dueling.


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Hamilton was shot in a duel by Aaron Burr, on the IIth of July, 1804, and died on the following day. Burr was a cold-hearted, vindictive man, and evidently intended to kill Hamilton. He was seen in his arbor practising with his pistol for several days previous to the duel, and he is said to have become so expert with his pistol as to be able, at the distance of ten paces, to snuff a candle.


When the encounter took place, Hamilton dis- charged his pistol into the air, but Burr, having reserved his fire, took deliberate aim, and with fatal effect shot his adversary.


When it was announced to Burr, several hours after the occurrence, that Hamilton had been fatally injured and was then lying in a dying condition, he was walking in his arbor, reading one of his favor- ite authors, as composedly as if nothing of impor- tance had occurred, and even refused to credit the statement.


Burr died several years afterwards in great des- titution, and was buried along side of his father, at Princeton, New Jersey.


Immediately in the front of Hamilton's monu- ment is the grave of his widow, who survived him about 50 years. The following inscription is cut on a handsome marble slab :


" ELIZA. DAUGHTER OF JOHN SCHUYLER, WIDOW OF ALEXANDER HAMILTON, BORN AT ALBANY, AUGUST 9TH, 1797, DIED AT WASHINGTON, NOV. 9TH, 1854. INTERRED HERE."


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Toward the centre of the yard is a neat, tasty monument of white marble to the memory of CHARLES MCLEAN & WIFE, 1799. Across the path from the Hamilton monument, there are two monuments of marble to the memory of " COL. JOHN WARD, OF SOUTH CAROLINA, DIED 19TH SEPT., 1816. AGED 50 YEARS." ROBERT MACKAY, OF GEORGIA.


DIED 6TH OCTOBER, 1816, AGED 44 YEARS."


A short distance from the above is a brown stone on which is the following inscription :


" This marble designed with unambitious pur- poses, and chiefly to preserve in the remembrance of his friends his excellent disposition and amiable qualities, is sacred to the memory of JAMES SAIDLEY, who departed this life, July 29th, 1803, aged 52 years."


Tomb of CAPT. JOHN GRIFFITH.


Just below the grave of Mrs. Hamilton, is a neat marble monument to the memory of


"MY MOTHER."


Close to the above is the tomb of JOSEPH AQUILLER, 1803, and JOHN BUCHANAN, 1812.


We have now reached a neat marble monument, with the inscription in both English and Danish : "UNDERNEATH LAY THE REMAINS OF


LARS NANNSTAD, his Majesty's Weighmaster and Postmaster General for the Island of Saint Thomas. Assessor in the Berghers' Council, Church Warden, Guardian of the Poor, in the same place. He was born on the 6th of June, 1757, in little Nesterell, on the Island of Zieland, in Denmark, Married in the


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year 1789 to Anne Maria Elizabeth Winaboy, and arrived in New York on the 31st of May, 1807, for the benefit of his declining health, and was on the 24th day of July, in the same year, called to a better life, aged 49 years and some days. His sorrowing and disconsolate widow has erected this monument as a grateful remembrance of a most affectionate husband."


The following inscription is nearly gone, and is almost lost, from the influence of the weather.


"L. N."


A highly respected and beloved Master-Mason, late a member of Lodge, in the Island of Zieland, in Denmark.


On a line with Broadway, and midway between Rector and Church Streets, is a brown grave-stone with the following inscription :


" Here lies the body of WILLIAM STONE MONT- GOMERY, eldest son of Sir Wm. Montgomery, Bart and late Captain of his Britanic Majesty's Ninth Regiment of Infantry. He died in this city on the 7th day of July, 1778.


Near to the above grave are the tombs of


B. PECK, 1719. MRS. MARY KELLEY, 1800. MARY WRAGG, 1730. WM. WALTON, 1767. ROBERT CADENHEAD, 1806.


LIEUT. WM. TAPP, of Col. Marinus Willetts' Regiment, was buried here, but the grave-stone is lost.


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