[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Amongt the most intimate of these friends, was then afterwards distinguished Elbridge Gerry; with whom he lodged regularly in the same room

Later governor of the Commonwealth, and eponym of the Gerrymander. Pronounced with a hard "G" (like the "G" in "Gary") by his descendants still living in the Commonwealth.

[gusopol3]

I thought of Warren the other day when I read in the Examiner that IRS was sending people into churches to discover whether political activity was going on. Warren gave the Boston Massacre commemorative speech in either ‘74 or ‘75 at the South Meeting House and Red Coat officers occupied the front row in a display of intimidation. Warren took out his handkerchief, leaned over and dropped it over the gun of one of them.

[Verginius Rufus]

Elbridge Gerry was later Vice President of the United States and died in office--both of James Madison's Vice Presidents died in office. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in 1787 but refused to sign the Constitution because it lacked a bill of rights. He was also one of the US diplomats involved in the so-called XYZ Affair.

One of the British officers who died from wounds received in the battle of Bunker Hill was Major John Pitcairn, whose men had fired on the patriots in Lexington on April 19, 1775.