page_title: St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery
section_title: Notable burials
hierarchical_section_title: St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery / Notable burials
caption_attribution_description: The cover of the burial vault in which the remains of Petrus Stuyvesant (Peter Stuyvesant) are interred, on the west wall of St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery in the East Village, Manhattan, New York City.
context_page_description: St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery is a parish of the Episcopal Church located at 131 East 10th Street, at the intersection of Stuyvesant Street and Second Avenue in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. The property has been the site of continuous Christian worship for more than three and a half centuries, making it New York City's oldest site of continuous religious practice. The structure is the second-oldest church building in Manhattan.
context_section_description: Both the church's East and West Yards have under them stone burial vaults, in which many prominent New Yorkers were interred. Although it no longer does full body burials, the church still does cremation burials in the church vault under the West Yard.
  Charles Anthon – scholar of the classics
  Joseph S. Brasuell - Lower East Side community leader who served as warden and vestry member of the Church
  John C. Colt – convicted murderer and brother of Samuel Colt – of Colt Revolver fame – was interred in 1842 after his suicide in The Tombs jail.
  Miriam Friedlander (1914-2009) – was a Bronx born American politician who represented the city council district in New York City's Lower East Side and Chinatown from 1974 to 1991.
  Augustus Van Horne Ellis – lawyer, sea captain, and a brevet brigadier general in the Union Army during the Civil War; killed in action at the Battle of Gettysburg
  Thomas Addis Emmet – lawyer and politician who served as New York State Attorney General
  Nicholas Fish (1758–1833) – Revolutionary War soldier, who later served as adjutant general of New York State; father of New York Governor and United States Senator Hamilton Fish (1808–1893).
  Josiah Ogden Hoffman – lawyer and politician
  Philip Hone (1780–1851) – merchant and Mayor of New York.
  John Brooks Leavitt – attorney, Senior Warden of St. Mark's
  Gideon Lee (1778–1841) – Mayor of New York and United States Representative.
  Commodore Matthew C. Perry – famous for his role in the "opening" of Japan; his body was later moved to Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island.
  Alexander Turney Stewart (1803–1876) – wealthy New York merchant, whose body was stolen two years after his burial and held for ransom.
  Peter Stuyvesant (1612–1672) – Director-General of the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.
  Daniel D. Tompkins (1774–1825) – Vice President of the United States under President James Monroe and former Governor of New York.
caption: Cover of the burial vault of Peter Stuyvesant
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