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Little Green Street Burial Ground of the Society of Friends

Also known as Religious Society of Friends Cemetery

Manhattan, New York County, New York, USA

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Get directions Liberty Street and Liberty Place (Little Green Street)
Manhattan, New York, USA

Coordinates: 40.70922, -74.00975
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........The Little Green Street Burial Ground........
........~ ~ ~ of the Society of Friends ~ ~ ~........

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Also known as:

▫ "Little Green Street Burial Ground"
▫ "Liberty Place Burial Ground"
▫ "Friends' Burying Ground in New York"

The Society of Friends (Quakers) established their meeting house about 1696 on Liberty Street. The attached burial ground, which served Manhattan's first Quaker congregation, was situated behind the meeting house and stretched east to Little Green Street (present-day Liberty Place).

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▫ Years of use: 1696 — 1823.

▫ Disposition: Destroyed.

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Note: The remains were first removed to a collective vault at the Houston Street Burial Ground in 1825, and, when that cemetery was also closed, to Prospect Park in Brooklyn in 1849.

"Death records say - burial R. S. Cemetery [stands for Religious Society]

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