[13] Together, they lived at 5 State Street in Manhattan, overlooking the Battery and were the parents of:[14] Goelet died on September 22, 1879, at 857 Broadway, his residence in New York City.
[5] After a funeral at St. Mark's Protestant Episcopal Church, he was buried in the Ogden family vault at the New York Marble Cemetery.
[22] In his will, he left his wife "all his jewelry, plate, ornaments, horses, carriages, furniture, and paintings, and an annuity of $40,000 in lieu of dower, payable in quarterly installments.
[2][24] Aside from $500,000 left to his nephew Elbridge Gerry, the rest of Peter's estate went to Robert's sons.
[25] Through his eldest son Robert, he was a grandfather of Robert Walton Goelet, a financier and real estate developer,[26] and Beatrice Goelet, who died of pneumonia at age 17 in 1902 and was painted as a child by John Singer Sargent.