Elbridge Gerry
American
Lineage
- Father Thomas Gerry
| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Description | Association | Composition | Place | Locale | Food | Event |
| Home | Elbridge Gerry House | Marblehead, MA | |||||
| 1775/04/17 | Patriots meet at Mr Taylor's house (lost) in Concord. COMMITTEE OF SAFETY: John Hancock, Col Heath, Col Palmer, Cap White, Mr Devens, Col Gardner, Mr Watson, Col Orne, J Pigeon. COMMITTEE OF SUPPLIES: Col Lee, Mr Gill, Mr Cheever, Mr Gerry, Col Lincoln. | Patriot Committee of Supplies | Battles of Lexington and Concord | ||||
| 1775/04/18 | A Patriot Committee of Safety meets at Weatherby's Black Horse Tavern (lost) in Menotomy (now Arlington). Marker in front of 295 Massachusetts Avenue. | Patriot Committee of Supplies | Arlington | Massachusetts | Battles of Lexington and Concord | ||
| 1775/04/19 | Committee of Safety members, Elbridge Gerry, Azor Orne and Jeremiah Lee, who were sleeping at the Black Horse Tavern awake to British soldiers knocking on the door wanting to search the inn. The Patriots escape the Regulars by hiding in a cornfield behind | Patriot Committee of Supplies | Battles of Lexington and Concord | ||||
| 1776/08/02 | Mr Gerry, when we are all hung for what we are now doing. From the size and weight of my body I shall die in a few minutes..., but from the lightness of your body you will dance in the air an hour or two before you are dead. - BH to Elbridge Gerry | Signer, Representing Massachusetts | US Declaration of Independence | Independence Hall | Philadelphia, PA | American Colonies Declare Independence from Great Britain | |
| 1787/09/17 | Elbridge Gerry declines to sign the United States Constitution. | Non-Signer, Representing Massachusetts | Independence Hall | Philadelphia, PA | Constitutional Convention | ||
| 1789/04/30 | Following his inauguration George Washington walks up Broadway to St Paul's for the service. John Adams and both houses of congress which included future president James Madison and future vice president Elbridge Gerry, also attend. | Congressman | St Paul's Chapel | New York City | Inauguration of the first President of the United States |
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