Hi Kelly, Talk about serendipity!  I also am looking for information about the Patrick Higgins that died at Harts Island. Last week I got the LDS Film - Manhattan bodies in Transit 1671687 It says Date of Transit thru NY - Dec 17 1880 Age - 67 Place of Death - Harts island Date of Death - Dec 17 1880 Cause of Death - Phthisis Nativity - Ireland Now At - Harts Island Place of Internment - Flushing, NY How Certified - James R Healy MD - 1880 census lists him as head physician Harts Island Pelham Name and Address of  Applicant - CS O'Neil I think that CS O'Neil may have been an undertaker.  I have not been able to find him on the 1880 census record. I am hoping this Patrick Higgins may be my great-great grandfather. Born in Ireland, married in Ellsworth, ME.  Followed his daughter Annie M Higgins to Brooklyn who married Daniel J. Harte in 1866. Do you have a connection to him? Patrick is also listed as a patient with Dr Healy at the Harts Island Lunatic Asylum in the 1880 census at Pelham, Westchester Co.  So would Westchester have issued the death certificate? Ellen