Elbridge T. Gerry was a 19th-century New York Sandy Hook pilot boat built in 1888 at the Robinson & Waterhouse shipyard in City Island, Bronx.

She was owned by pilots Captain B. J. Guiness, Hiram Treat, John Reardon, Edward Earl, Charles Foster and William Hurrall.

She took the place of the pilot boat Ezra Nye, which on March 12, 1888, drifted and went ashore near the southern end of the Manhattan Beach Railroad pier in the Great Blizzard of 1888.

[2][3] On October 15, 1893, the pilot boat Elbridge T. Gerry, dragged her anchors and started to drift ashore off Staten Island.

[6] On Jan 31, 1897, the New York pilot boat Elbridge T. Gerry changed her name to Kwasind, after the strongman in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Song of Hiawatha.