Thomas Russell Gerry
BIRTH
Dec 8, 1794
Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
DEATH
October 8, 1848
New Rochelle, New York, U.S.
FAMILY
FATHER:
Elbridge Gerry
(1714-1814)
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Gerry, Thomas Russell
(1794-1848)
Thomas Russell Gerry (1794–1848) was associated with the American Revolutionary era as a governor, merchant, sailor. The biographical details in this entry are based on the record titled “Thomas Russell Gerry.”
Thomas Russell Gerry was born on Dec 8, 1794 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Thomas Russell Gerry with work or public activity as a governor, merchant, sailor. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Thomas Russell Gerry died on Oct 8, 1848 in New Rochelle, New York, U.S. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.