{"id":1829,"date":"2017-12-08T23:03:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-09T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2017-12-08T23:05:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T04:05:01","slug":"trinity-church-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/2017\/12\/08\/trinity-church-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trinity Church"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The original Trinity Church that was built in 1696.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This is the burial site of Alexander Hamilton as well as his wife at the Trinity Church today.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Trinity Church began in 1696 with a small group of Anglicans, members of the Church of England, they created the first Anglican Church in Manhattan, New York. As New York\u2019s population grew the Church built new chapels such as St. George\u2019 Chapel and St. Paul\u2019s Chapel. In 1776, the first Trinity Church was destroyed by the Great Fire of 1776 during the war. After President Washington was elected the second Trinity Church was built, George Washington and his government were worshipers at this church while the nation\u2019s capital was in New York City. Alexander Hamilton was also a member of Trinity Church, five of his children were baptized here. The Trinity Parish had eleven different chapels, it was referenced as the \u201cmother of churches\u201d. Trinity Church schoolhouse also played a part in King\u2019s College\u2019s growth by holding some of the very first classes. Alexander Hamilton advised the Church in legal and financial matters as their lawyer. After Hamilton\u2019s death after the duel with Aaron Burr, his funeral was held at Trinity Church and buried in the Trinity churchyard. Today there is a monument near him and his wife\u2019s resting place.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trinity Church began in 1696 with a small group of Anglicans, members of the Church of England, they created the first Anglican Church in Manhattan, New York. As New York\u2019s population grew the Church built new chapels such as St. George\u2019 Chapel and St. Paul\u2019s Chapel. In 1776, the first Trinity Church was destroyed by …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4056,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexander-hamiltons-new-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4056"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1832,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions\/1832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/nyc-history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}