same church in which he was baptized). However, as cemeteries in Manhattan were redeveloped during the mid-1800s, the Colonel's body was re-interred several times (first moved in 1858 to the Middle Church in Lafayette Place, on the corner of Nassau Street and Cedar Street in Manhattan, and then, in 1865, interred in Green-Wood Cemetery). For many years, no one remembered where his body had been finally laid to rest, although it was long believed that he was buried in a Dutch Reformed churchyard in Belleville, New Jersey. One road running alongside this New Jersey graveyard is now called Rutgers Street (signed as, but not technically part of, Route 7). Misplaced by history for over 140 years, Henry Rutgers' final "final resting place" was rediscovered in October 2007 by Civil War research volunteers sifting through burial records of the historical Green-Wood Cemetery. In 1865, Rutgers' body had been finally laid to rest in an unmarked grave (he is interred in Lot 10776, Sec. 28, in an underground vault) within the Dutch Reformed Church's plot at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. The Green-Wood Historic Fund and members of the Rutgers Community honored the Colonel's memory on Flag Day, June 14, 2008 by unveiling a bronze marker at his gravesite. Elsewhere in Green-Wood Cemetery lies the grave of Mabel Smith Douglass, founder and first dean of the New Jersey College for Women (renamed Douglass College in her honor.) Douglass College is part of Rutgers University's New Brunswick campus. References External links Rutgers University Rutgers Presbyterian Church in New York City. From the papers of Henry Rutgers Famous Dutch Americans 1745 births 1830 deaths Columbia College (New York) alumni Rutgers University people American people of Dutch descent De Peyster family Military personnel from New York City Members of the New York State Assembly Huguenot participants in the American Revolution Continental Army officers from New York (state) Philanthropists from New York (state) Burials at Green-Wood Cemetery 1808 United States presidential electors 1816 United States presidential electors 1820 United States presidential electors University and college founders Roosevelt family American slave owners