Benjamin Pond

Benjamin Pond (born 1768 in Stockbridge , Province of Massachusetts Bay , † October 6, 1814 in Schroon , New York ) was an American lawyer and politician . Between 1811 and 1813 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Benjamin Pond grew up during the British colonial era. He attended community schools. In 1800 he moved to Poultney ( Vermont ) and from there to the part of the town of Crown Point (later Schroon), which is now part of the town of North Hudson (New York). He worked in agriculture. In 1804 he was justice of the peace and supervisor . He then worked as a judge on the Court of Common Pleas in Essex County in 1808 , but continued to live in Schroon. Between 1808 and 1810 he was a member of the New York State Assembly .

As an opponent of an overly strong central government, he joined the Democratic-Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson at that time . In the congressional elections of 1810 Pond was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the eighth constituency of New York , where he succeeded John Thompson on March 4, 1811 . He retired from the after 3 March 1813 Congress of.

Pond served in the British-American War . He participated as a volunteer in September 1814 in the Siege and Battle of Plattsburgh in Captain Russell Walker's company in the 37th  Regiment of the New York National Guard . Pond was elected to the 14th Congress , but died before the beginning of the term on October 6, 1814 of the consequences of an illness that he had contracted during the siege of Plattsburgh. His body was buried in Pine Ridge Cemetery in North Hudson. On September 3, 1923, his remains were reburied in Riverside Cemetery in Elizabethtown .

Web links

• Benjamin Pond in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Benjamin Pond in the database of Find a Grave (English)