SOCIETY OF THE CINCINATTI (MM)
Erected by the New York State Society of the Cincinnati to the memory of Alexander Hamilton, 1757-1804, the Lieutenant Colonel, Aide de Camp to General Washington and those officers of the Continental Army and Navy, original members of the Society whose remains are interred in the Churchyard of Trinity Parish: Richard Montgomery, Silas Talbot, John Lamb, Aquila Giles, Thomas Randall, Elihu Marshall, Abel Holden, Charles McKnight, Horatio Gates, James Nicholson, Marinus Willett, E. M. B. de Rochefontaine, Edward Dunscomb, John Pray, Cornelius Swartwout, and John Francis Vacher.
Beside the above memorial is a memorial to Horatio Gates: In memory of Horatio Gates Revolutionary War major general, victor at Saratoga, buried 1806 in an unmarked grave in this historic churchyard.
Erected by New York State organization, Daughters of the American Revolution, October 21, 2012.
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