sentences:  Gershom Mendes Seixas died on July 2, 1816, and was buried in his congregation's first cemetery, then in the Bowery, now Chinatown.A memorial sermon delivered by Emanuel Nunes Carvalho of Congregation Mikveh Israel and printed in Philadelphia became the first Jewish sermon published in the United States.Congregation Shearith Israel prominently displays a tablet in Seixas's honor.