None of this relates directly to your question but it might help narrow things down a bit. These are all the mentions of cemeteries listed in the index of the book GOTHAM: History of New York city to 1898. 1797 "Potter's Field opened just north of today's Washington Square" (p 358) Before 1830 "New York had banned burials north of Canal Street" (p 582-83) 1830 New York Marble Cemetery opened (p 582-83) 1832 Henry E. Pierrepont proposed a city of the dead on the heights of Gowanus (p 582-83) between 1842 & 1846 Walt Whitman reported watching a group of women trying to block workman from digging up the Baptist Cemetery at the corner of Crystie and Delancy (p 706) 1848 Calvary Cemetery established by John Hughes (p 751) 1870s "Workmen digging a cellar for a building at Lexington and 107th St. uncovered a graveyard for British Soldiers" (p 930) Margaret > Subject: [HudsonRV] Burials in Old New York City > I have a Revolutionary War pensioner who died in New City June 2, > 1835. The > family lived on West St. NYC was young, small and down on the lover > end of > Manhattan. Cemeteries were probably north and moved as growth pushed > north.