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Trinity Church Cemetery
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton is buried in Trinity Churchyard, not in Trinity Cemetery. Those are different Trinity burial grounds in Manhattan.
Full reasoning
This location is incorrect. The National Park Service biography of Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton states that she "is buried in Trinity Church yard, next to her beloved Alexander." Trinity Wall Street’s own churchyard records likewise identify Alexander Hamilton’s grave in Trinity Churchyard. In other words, Eliza and Alexander are buried in the historic churchyard at Trinity Church in lower Manhattan, not in the separate uptown burial ground called Trinity Cemetery.
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- Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (U.S. National Park Service)
She died on November 9, 1854, with some of her children around her. She is buried in Trinity Church yard, next to her beloved Alexander.
- TRINITY CHURCHYARD - Explore Three Centuries of New York History
HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (GRAVE & MONUMENT) ... The best known of thousands buried in Trinity Churchyard, Alexander Hamilton occupies a place in the annals of the nation's history.
In August, her request was granted, and Congress bought and published Alexander's works, adding them to the Library of Congress.
Congress did buy Hamilton’s papers in 1848, but they were kept at the State Department and only transferred to the Library of Congress in 1904. The seven-volume Works was later published by John Church Hamilton, not simply by Congress that August.
Full reasoning
This sentence compresses several separate events into one and gets the timeline wrong.
According to the Library of Congress, Congress appropriated money in 1848 to buy Alexander Hamilton’s papers from his family. But the Library also states that Congress kept the papers at the State Department, and that they did not arrive at the Library of Congress until 1904. The same Library of Congress account explains that John Church Hamilton, Alexander and Eliza’s son, later fulfilled his mother’s wish by publishing the seven-volume Works of Alexander Hamilton in 1850–1851.
So the papers were not added to the Library of Congress in August 1848, and the publication history was not simply that Congress “bought and published Alexander’s works” in that same moment.
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- New Online: Alexander Hamilton Papers | Timeless
In spring 1848, Congress appropriated $20,000 to buy the papers of Alexander Hamilton from his family... Congress kept Alexander Hamilton's papers at the State Department... John Church Hamilton... published his seven-volume Works of Alexander Hamilton between 1850 and 1851. In 1903... [they] arrived in the Library's Manuscript Division in 1904.
- About this Collection | Alexander Hamilton Papers | Library of Congress
The federal government bought the bulk of the Hamilton papers in 1848. They were transferred from the State Department to the Library of Congress in 1904.