Foreign Powers
  The Officers of the Army and Navy of the United States
  Military and Naval Officers of the Foreign Powers
  Militia Officers of States
  Presidents, Directors, and Officers of the respective Banks
  Chamber of Commerce and Merchants
  Marine Society, Wardens of the Port, and Masters and Officers
    of the Harbour
  The President, Professors, and students of Columbia College
  The different Societies
  The Citizens in general, including the partisans of Burr

On the coffin were Hamilton’s hat and sword.  His boots and spurs were reversed across his horse.  The fine gray charger, caparisoned in mourning, was led by two black servants, dressed in white, their turbans trimmed with black.

The military escorted him in single file, with trailing arms, the band playing “The Dead March in Saul,” minute guns from the Artillery in the Park answered by the British and French warships in the harbour.  But for the solemn music, its still more solemn accompaniment, the tolling of muffled bells, and the heavy tramp of many feet, there was no sound; even women of an hysterical habit either controlled themselves or were too impressed to give way to superficial emotion.  When the procession after its long march reached Trinity Church the military formed in two columns, extending from the gate to the corners of Wall Street, and the bier was deposited before the entrance.  Morris, surrounded by Hamilton’s boys, stood over it, and delivered the most impassioned address which had ever leapt from that brilliant but erratic mind.  It was brief, both because he hardly was able to control himself, and because he feared to incite the people to violence, but it was profoundly moving.  “He never lost sight of your interests!” he reiterated; “I declare to you before that God in whose presence we are now so especially assembled, that in his most private and confidential conversations, his sole subject of discussion was your freedom and happiness.  Although he was compelled to abandon public life, never for a moment did he abandon the public service.  He never lost sight of your interests.  For himself he feared nothing; but he feared that bad men might, by false professions, acquire your confidence and abuse it to your ruin.  He was ambitious only of glory, but he was deeply solicitous for you.”

The troops formed an extensive hollow square in the churchyard, and terminated the solemnities with three volleys over the coffin in its grave.  The immense throng, white, still aghast, and unreconciled, dispersed.  The bells tolled until sundown.  The city and the people wore mourning for a month, the bar for six weeks.  In due time the leading men of the parish decided upon the monument which should mark to future generations the cold and narrow home of him who had been so warm in life, loving as few men had loved, exulted in the wide greatness of the empire he had created.

It bears this inscription: