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Egbert Benson manuscript [textual record (microform)]

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Date:

1796.

Reference:

R13241-0-X-E, Microfilm reel number: M-9643

Type of material:

Textual material

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Archives / Collections and Fonds

Item ID number:

3963380

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Egbert Benson manuscript
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Date(s):

1796.

Place of creation:

Canada

Added country of publication:

United States

Extent:

1 microfilm reel.

Language of material:

English

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Item is a manuscript statement of the controversy over the Northeast boundary of the United States between the U.S. and Canada, written by Judge Egbert Benson, a member of the joint American-British Commission to resolve the dispute. The controversy arose over the St. Croix River and Island discovered by Samuel de Champlain and established as the boundary by the Treaty of 1783. Includes maps of the area.

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Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833

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Benson, Egbert, 1746-1833 : Egbert Benson was born in New York in June 1746. His father Robert was a brewer and a member of a distinguished family. He graduated from King's College (now Columbia University, New York) in 1765 and then practiced law in New York and in Dutchess County. He served the Revolutionary cause in a number of capacities and, in 1777, was appointed the first Attorney General of New York State. He re-located to Albany after his appointment to the New York State Supreme Court in 1794 but returned to New York City about 1803. He was later elected to the United State House of Representatives, from which he resigned in 1813. He then seems to have retired from public office. Egbert Benson appears to not have married; he died in Jamaica in 1833 at eighty-seven years old.

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General note:

Microfilming of the documents was done in 2005, thanks to financial assistance provided by the Cultural Affairs office of the United States Embassy to Canada.

Location of originals note:

Originals are kept by the Massachusetts Historical Society, call number P-771.

Related material:

See also the Northeast boundary papers (R-13223).

Source:

Private
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