Ann Gerry
(1763-1849)
BIRTH
August 12, 1763
PLACE
New York City, New York, British America
NAME
Ann Thompson
DEATH
March 17, 1849
PLACE
New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
FAMILY
HUSBAND
Elbridge Gerry
(1744-1814)
CHILDREN
Catharine Gerry
(1787-1850)
CHILDREN
Thomas Russell Gerry
(1794-1845)
CHILDREN
James Thompson Gerry
(1797-1854)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Ann Thompson Gerry (1763–1849) married Declaration signer Elbridge Gerry in 1786 and raised a large family at Elmwood in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of a New York merchant and had been educated in Dublin. Her husband’s service as governor and then vice president brought both prominence and financial strain. Widowed in 1814, she survived until 1849, becoming the last surviving widow of a Declaration signer. Portraits preserve her memory.
EARLY LIFE
Ann Gerry was born on Aug 12, 1763 in New York City, New York. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Ann Gerry is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Ann Gerry died on Mar 17, 1849 in New Haven, Connecticut. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Widowed in 1814, she survived until 1849, becoming the last surviving widow of a Declaration signer. Ann Gerry died on Mar 17, 1849 in New Haven, Connecticut. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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