The best known of thousands buried in Trinity Churchyard, Alexander Hamilton occupies a place in the annals of the nation's history, and its historical imagination. He was the first treasurer of the United States and the founder of The Bank of New York, the nation's oldest commercial lender. His likeness appears on the ten-dollar bill.

Wounded in a pistol duel with longtime foe Aaron Burr, Hamilton died in the pastoral care of the Episcopal Bishop of New York, Benjamin Moore, who was also the Rector of Trinity Church.

Moore administered Hamilton his Last Rites, although not without consternation. Killing a man in a duel was a capital offense in New York in 1804, and dueling was widely considered immoral. And so the good bishop

"… did not want to give [Last Rites] too hastily to a duelist. He came back again in the afternoon and asked Hamilton to consider 'the delicate and trying situation in which I was placed…' The dying man abjured dueling, confessed his faith in God's mercy through Christ, and forgave Burr" (Alexander Hamilton, American, by Richard Brookhiser). 

Moore remained with Hamilton until his death the next day.

Having bought a pew at Trinity, Hamilton was technically a member of the church; however, there is no evidence that was a regular churchgoer. Several of his children were baptized at Trinity. After establishing himself as a lawyer, Hamilton and his partners handled Trinity's legal business.

The Hamilton monument, made of a pure-white high-grade marble, was commissioned in 1804, but not erected until 1806.

Hamilton's son is also buried in Trinity Churchyard. He died three years earlier than his father - also of wounds received during a duel.