. The Lee mansion, what it was and what it is . were hard times among its people, and Jeremiah Lee was taking an activepart in all its affairs. When with Col. Azor Orne he was elected to the Continental Congress, he,with Orne, was obliged to decline, owing to the great expense, and ElbridgeGerry was then sent, at the towns expense, afterward becoming Vice-Presidentof the United States. (1). Our late townsman J. H. Orne, Esq., speaks thus of Lee: As mod-erator of important town meetings, as town officer in various capacities, as rep-resentative in the General Court and as a member of the provin
. The Lee mansion, what it was and what it is . were hard times among its people, and Jeremiah Lee was taking an activepart in all its affairs. When with Col. Azor Orne he was elected to the Continental Congress, he,with Orne, was obliged to decline, owing to the great expense, and ElbridgeGerry was then sent, at the towns expense, afterward becoming Vice-Presidentof the United States. (1). Our late townsman J. H. Orne, Esq., speaks thus of Lee: As mod-erator of important town meetings, as town officer in various capacities, as rep-resentative in the General Court and as a member of the province Committeeof Safety and Supplies he rendered faithful public service. Elbridge Gerry and Azor Orne were also members of the same importantcommittee and having attended one of its meetings held at Weatherbys BlackHorse Tavern, in Cambridge, on the 18th of April, 1775, the three members,from Marblehead, being considerable distance from home, resolved to spend (1). From Deeds of our Ancestors by J. H. Grue, Esq. Printed in the Messenger. KITCHEN FIREPLACE the night there. It was during that night that eight hundred British soldiersstarted for Lexington and Concord. Reaching Cambridge, the battalion haltedwhile a detachment was sent to capture the three rebels. Aroused from theirslumbers and warned of their danger, they hurriedly left the house and escapedacross the fields leaving their clothing behind. The detachment departed afteran unsuccessful search, the battalion moving on, the three patriots left theirplace of concealment and recovered their clothing. It is said that Lee neverrecoyered from the illness contracted by this exposure, and now, when hisabilities and experience were of great importance to his country, his friendswere summoned to his dying bed at his country seat in Newbury where hebreathed his last just three weeks after his narrow escape at Cambridge. Thusdied one of the earliest martyrs to the patriot cause never forgetting his countryor its needs while
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