Benjamin Pond

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

Career

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

As opponents of a strong central government, he joined at that time, which was founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1810 Pond was in the eighth election district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of John Thompson on March 4, 1811. He retired after the March 3, 1813 out of the Congress.

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