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Egbert Benson was born on June 21, 1746, in New York, the son of Robert Benson and Catherine Van Borsum.
(Title: Cases and queries : submitted to every citizen of ...)
Title: Cases and queries : submitted to every citizen of the United States and especially the members of the administration and of both Houses of Congress as deserving to be impartially considered by them. Author: Egbert Benson Publisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s. Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and abolition, religious history and more. Sabin Americana offers an up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere, encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts, newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and more. Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of original works are available via print-on-demand, making them readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars, and readers of all ages. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ SourceLibrary: Huntington Library DocumentID: SABCP03891200 CollectionID: CTRG02-B176 PublicationDate: 18090101 SourceBibCitation: Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America Notes: Signed (p. 24): Impartial. Attributed to Benson by Sabin. Collation: 24 p. ; 20 cm
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(Egbert Benson (1746 New York City – 1833 New York) was U....)
Egbert Benson (1746 New York City – 1833 New York) was U.S. Founding Father--member of the Continental Congress, Annapolis Convention, and Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court. "Vindication of the Captors of Major André" (Reprinted for J. Sabin, in 1865), was written by Benson after the Revolutionary War when he returned to the private practice of law in New York City in 1803. In this book Benson defends the three American Patriots who captured the spy Major John André, which led to the discovery of the plot to surrender West Point to the British by Benedict Arnold. THE history of our Revolutionary contest were it all a fiction might form the plan and outline of a most noble epic poem. It abounds in fine examples of the moral sublime, in traits of heroic self devotion, in strongly marked diversity of character and extreme vicissitudes of fortune, as wonderful and interesting as the most ardent admirer of romance could desire. Nor were incidents wanting suitable to form beautiful and affecting episodes, among which, perhaps, the story of Arnold's treason and major Andre's death has excited the strongest and most general feeling of interest. The unhappy fate of Andre deplored alike by friends and enemies has been the cause of many a tear and the theme of many a song, and the incorruptible integrity of his captors, as a characteristic of the yeomanry of the country has irresistible claims upon our frequent and fond recollection; claims which will we trust acquire new force by the ultimate effect of the attack upon them which a highly respectable gentleman in Congress unfortunately thought it his duty to make. We acknowledge ourselves to be among those who have been anxiously ready to be convinced that our long established and recently disturbed opinion of the magnanimity of Paulding, Williams, and Vanwart, was founded on a just and correct appreciation of their conduct. We felt our national pride wounded by the statement of Col. Tallmadge, and therefore rejoice to find in the 'Vindication 'of the Captors of Major Andre,' a complete and satisfactory refutation, as we conceive, of the charges so publickly brought against them in Congress. We believe it is universally regretted that the honourable member happened to find himself in a situation which called for a disclosure of his sentiments; those even who were convinced of the correctness of his opinion admitted the conviction with reluctance, and there were not a few that were so much exasperated as to fall into a very unreasonable suspicion against the candour and generosity of Col. Tallmadge himself. His high character and long sustained eminence however place him above the effect of all such unfavourable conjectures, though nothing can exempt him from the liability to err, which he shares with all mankind. And we trust a very slight consideration of the circumstances will suffice to show that Col. Tallmadge must have been in this instance entirely mistaken. The three militiamen who captured Andre — John Pauding, Isaac Van Wart, and David Williams—were awarded by Congress a silver medal and the sum of $200 per annum. John Andre" suffered his ignominious death at Tappan, N. Y., he having been refused his request of meeting his end as a soldier by being shot. A rough boulder marks the spot, on which is cut in deep letters: "Andre", executed Oct. 2, 1780."
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Egbert Benson was born on June 21, 1746, in New York, the son of Robert Benson and Catherine Van Borsum.
Egbert was graduated from King's College in 1765, read law in the office of John Morin Scott, and was admitted to the bar in the January term of the New York supreme court, 1769. Later he received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Union, 1779, from Harvard, 1808, and from Dartmouth, 1811.
Commencing the practise of his profession at Red Hook in Dutchess County in 1772, Benson soon became prominent in that region in promoting activities for the patriot cause, organizing revolutionary proceedings there and in the province generally, and taking a leading part in launching and maintaining the new state government. He was a member of the Provincial Congress, 1776, and of the Council of Safety, 1777-78, attorney-general 1777-87, and a member of the first legislative assembly, elected in 1777, wherein, according to Chancellor Kent, he "drafted much of the legislation passed by that body and was the most confidential and efficient adviser of the elder Clinton. "
Benson was active in the political development of the American union, being a delegate to the Congress of the Confederation, 1781-1784, and serving on commissions for managing the embarkation of Loyalists for Nova Scotia, for adjusting boundary disputes betwen the states, and for promoting the power of the union government. With Hamilton, he was a delegate from New York to the Annapolis Convention in 1786, and was a zealous advocate of the adoption by his state of the draft from the Philadelphia Convention. As a representative from New York in the first two Congresses under the Constitution, he was a strong and conspicuous supporter of the Administration, being especially identified with Hamilton's measures for the public credit, and with the framing of the fundamental statutes organizing the Executive Department.
In 1794 Benson was appointed a justice of the supreme court of New York, and was described by Chancellor Kent as having in his seven years' tenure of that position done more to reform the practise of that court than was ever done before or since. His service here was terminated in 1801 by the "midnight appointment" from President Adams as chief judge of the second United States circuit court. Owing to the repeal shortly thereafter of the law establishing this court, Benson retired from public life, except for a service of a few months in 1813 as representative from New York in the United States Congress.
Benson’s reputation for legal learning was second only to that of Hamilton. He received the degree of Doctor of Laws from Union, 1779, from Harvard, 1808, and from Dartmouth, 1811. He was a regent of the University of the State of New York, 1787-1802, and a trustee of Columbia College, 1804-1815. In his later years he lived at Jamaica, New York, where he died.
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(Title: Cases and queries : submitted to every citizen of ...)
(Egbert Benson (1746 New York City – 1833 New York) was U....)
Egbert Benson was a founding member and president of the New York Historical Society from 1805 to 1815; a member of the American Antiquarian Society. Benson also was a member of the U. S. House of Representatives from New York's 3rd district (1789-1793); the U. S. House of Representatives from New York's 2nd district (1813).
In 1820, Benson was in his seventies when he supposedly married his cousin, the younger Maria Cowenhoven. He also was the alleged father of the eight children born to that marriage over the next decade and a half.