of Jersey City, inviting luminary friends such as Major General Marquis de Lafayette to visit while touring America in 1824 for special Fourth of July celebrations. Varick would live at Prospect Hall until he died on July 30, 1831. Founding of the American Bible Society Varick was a founder of the American Bible Society in 1816. He would later become president (succeeding John Jay) in 1828 until his death in 1831. Personal life He and his wife Maria Roosevelt, daughter of Isaac Roosevelt, were married on May 8, 1786 in New York City. His father-in-law was the patrilineal great-great-grandfather of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. On February 15, 2022, the Washington Post reported that Richard Varick is on the list of New York City mayors, composed by Sarah Cate Wolfson, a high school student in New York City, who owned slaves. Varick and his wife initially resided at 52 Wall Street, then moved to a larger home on lower Broadway. They also owned a home at 11 Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan. Their final home was Prospect Hall on Essex Street in Jersey City, New Jersey. Death and burial Varick died on July 30, 1831 at Prospect Hall and is interred at the First Reformed Dutch Church Cemetery in Hackensack, New Jersey. Honorifics Varick Street (where he once owned property) in Manhattan in the City of New York, Varick Street in Jersey City, and the Town of Varick, New York, all bear his name. See also References External links Varick Transcripts Library of Congress Richard Varick Papers,1743-1871 New-York Historical Society Photographs of gravesite The Society of the Cincinnati American Revolution Institute Political Graveyard 1753 births People from New York City Mayors of New York City Members of the New York State Assembly New York (state) in the American Revolution New York (state) militiamen in the American Revolution Continental Army officers from New York (state) BNY Mellon New York (state) lawyers American people of Dutch descent Aides-de-camp of George Washington Columbia College (New York) alumni Speakers of the New York State Assembly New York State Attorneys General New York City Recorders Politicians from Hackensack, New Jersey People of New Jersey in the American Revolution Burials at First Reformed Dutch Church, Hackensack New York (state) Federalists Columbia University people 19th-century American lawyers 19th-century American politicians 18th-century American politicians 1831 deaths