Notable Burials
- Stephen Allen, mayor of New York City and governor of New York State
- Preserved Fish, a noted merchant
- David Sherwood Jackson, Congressman (1847–1849)
- James Lenox, whose library along with the Astor and Tilden libraries formed the New York Public Library
- Edward Elmer Potter, Civil War Brigadier General
- James Henry Roosevelt, founder of Roosevelt Hospital, and other members of his branch of the Roosevelt family
- John Lloyd Stephens, archaeologist who was a pioneer in the study of Mayan culture
- Moses Taylor, financier and backer of the Atlantic Cable
- Isaac Varian, mayor of New York City (1839–1841)
- Marinus Willett, hero of the Revolutionary War and Mayor of New York City (1807–1808)
The remains from the churchyard of the South Dutch Church were moved to the cemetery, which also contains the remains of the Kip family, after whom Kips Bay is named. Cemetery tradition holds the bones of the first European men to be buried on Manhattan island, the Dutch dominies, were moved to the "Ministers' Vault".
- Former burials
- John Ericsson, designer of USS Monitor, whose remains were subsequently moved to Sweden in 1890
- James Monroe, president of the United States, whose remains were subsequently moved to Richmond, Virginia in 1858
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