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The Life and Administration of Richard, Earl of Bellomont, Governor of the Provinces of New York, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, from 1697 to 1701. New York: New York Historical Society. OCLC 12854242. Doyle, John Andrew (1889). English Colonies in America: The Puritan Colonies. New York: Holt. p. 331. OCLC 8606936. Dunn, Richard (1962).
New York City: New York: 7 John C. Calhoun [57] March 31, 1850: St. Phillips Churchyard Charleston: South Carolina: 8 Martin Van Buren [58] July 24, 1862: Kinderhook Reformed Church Cemetery Kinderhook: New York: 9 Richard M. Johnson [59] November 19, 1850: Frankfort Cemetery: Frankfort: Kentucky: 10 John Tyler [60] January 18, 1862: Hollywood ...
The Albany Rural Cemetery was established October 7, 1844, in Menands, New York, United States, just outside the city of Albany, New York. It is renowned as one of the most beautiful, pastoral cemeteries in the U.S., at over 400 acres (1.6 km 2). Many historical American figures are buried there. [2]
The West Farms Soldiers Cemetery, at 2103 Bryant Avenue and 180th Street in the West Farms section of the Bronx in New York City, is the oldest public veterans' burial ground in the borough. The cemetery contains the remains of 40 US veterans including 2 from the War of 1812 , 35 from the Civil War , 2 from the Spanish-American War , and 2 from ...
Green-Wood Cemetery is a 478-acre (193 ha) cemetery in Brooklyn, New York City.The cemetery lies several blocks southwest of Prospect Park, and is generally bounded by 20th Street to the northeast, Fifth Avenue to the northwest, 36th and 37th Streets to the southwest, Fort Hamilton Parkway to the south, and McDonald Avenue to the east.
The law authorized nonprofit entities to establish cemeteries on rural land and sell burial plots, and it exempted from property taxation land that was so used. [3] A few rural cemeteries had been established in New York before the new law was passed (including Green-Wood Cemetery in 1838 and Albany Rural Cemetery in 1844), but the law's passage soon led to the establishment of more new ...
Memorial garden plots for urns Old section of the cemetery. Locust Valley Cemetery is a non-denominational cemetery located in Locust Valley, New York, in Nassau County.The cemetery was founded in the nineteenth century and designed by John Charles Olmsted and Frederick Law Olmsted Jr., renowned architects of Central Park.
He and his two brothers, Richard and Henry, settled in Oyster Bay in the 1660s and their descendants have been leaders in the community for centuries. Photo of Oyster Bay Fortified Hill Marker, 2009 Both Samuel and Sarah Townsend, the original owners of Raynham Hall are buried here, as are six of their eight children: Solomon, Robert, Sally ...