Honor the Immortal Dead

In the grave-yard adjoining this church are buried Commodore John Barry, Father of the American Navy, who was chosen by the Continental Congress to command the first warship owned by the colonies and fought the last naval battle of the Revolution; Thomas Fitzsimons, signer of the Constitution of the United States, member of the Continental Congress, and Representative in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Congress of the United States, who was the first to propose the levying of a tariff to protect American industries and encourage American labor; George Meade, grandfather of General George Gordon Meade, commander of the Union Army at Gettysburg; General Stephen Moylan, aide-de-camp to Washington, Muster Master General, and commander of all the cavalry at the close of the Revolution; and Matthew Carey, the leading publisher of the early years of the republic and the chief force in the creation of early American literature.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States