The cemetery is located in the city's East End Historic District and serves the Episcopal parish of St. George's on Grand Street.

He is thought to have collaborated with Andrew Jackson Downing on the cemetery, especially with designs of pedestrian and carriage pathways.

City historian A. Elwood Corning speculated that the Hasbroucks used the front of their property as a personal burying ground.

When work began to extend Colden Street, graves were reinterred at St. George's, a short walking distance away.

It is thought that the remains of Colonel Jonathan Hasbrouck (1722–1780) [2] and possibly his wife, Tryntje,[3] were placed beneath a sycamore tree on the south side of the cemetery.