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Egbert Benson

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EGBERT BENSON



Constitutional Convention, Continental Congress, Founder, House of Representatives, New York Court of Appeals Judge, Society President, State Assembly, State Attorney General, State Supreme Court Judge




		      __Dirck Benson4
		     |
		 __Samson Benson4
		|    |
		|    |__Catalina Berck4
		|
	    __Robert Benson2,4
	   |    |
	   |    |          __Abraham Pieterszen Van Deusen5
	   |    |         |
	   |    |     __Matheus Abrahamszen Van Deusen4,5
	   |    |    |    |
	   |    |    |    |__Tryntje Melchiors5
	   |    |    |
	   |    |__Tryntje Van Deusen4
	   |         |
	   |         |__Helena Roberts4,5
	   |
       __Robert Benson2,3,4
      |    |
      |    |               __Jan Roos1
      |    |              |
      |    |          __Gerrit Jansz Roos1
      |    |         |    |
      |    |         |    |     __Ghislain Vigné1
      |    |         |    |    |
      |    |         |    |__Maria Vigné1
      |    |         |         |
      |    |         |         |__Adrienne Cuvellier1
      |    |         |
      |    |     __Pieter Roos1
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |     __Lambert Hermansz Wolf1
      |    |    |    |    |
      |    |    |    |__Aeltje Lamberts Wolf1
      |    |    |         |
      |    |    |         |__Emmerentia Goosens van Nieuwersluys1
      |    |    |
      |    |__Cornelia Roos1,2,4
      |         |
      |         |     __Guert Petersz van't Horsken1
      |         |    |
      |         |__Elisabeth van't Horsken1
      |              |
      |              |__Aaltje Jans van Issem1
      |
EGBERT BENSON3
      |
      |               __Egbert Van Borsum7
      |              |
      |          __Hendrick Van Borsum6,7
      |         |    |
      |         |    |__Annetje Hendricks7
      |         |
      |     __Egbert Van Borsum3,4,6,8
      |    |    |
      |    |    |     __Cornelis Barentszen Van der Cuyl6,7
      |    |    |    |
      |    |    |__Marritje Van der Cuyl6,7
      |    |         |
      |    |         |__Lysbeth Arents6
      |    |
      |__Tryntje Van Borsum3,4
	   |
	   |          __Dirck Benson4
	   |         |
	   |     __Samson Benson4
	   |    |    |
	   |    |    |__Catalina Berck4
	   |    |
	   |__Elizabeth Benson4
		|
		|          __Abraham Pieterse Van Deusen5
		|         |
		|     __Matheus Abrahamszen Van Deusen4,5
		|    |    |
		|    |    |__Tryntje Melchiors5
		|    |
		|__Tryntje Van Deusen4
		     |
		     |__Helena Roberts4,5



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Biography of EGBERT BENSON

 
BENSON, Egbert, jurist, born in New York City, 21 June 1746; died in Jamaica, Long Island, 24 August 1833. He was graduated at King's College in 1765, and became distinguished for eloquence as a pleader, and for legal learning. He was a member of the revolutionary Committee of Safety, was appointed in 1777 the first Attorney General of the state, and was elected the same year to the first State Legislature. In 1783 he was one of the three commissioners appointed to direct the embarkation of loyalists for Nova Scotia in June of that year. In 1788 he took the lead in the legislature in advocating the acceptance of the federal constitution. He ceased to be Attorney General of New York in 1789. He was a member of the Continental Congress from 1784 until 1788, and was returned to the first and to the second Congress, taking an active part in the deliberations. He was judge of the Supreme Court of New York from 1794 till 1802, and also sat for a time on the federal bench as a circuit judge. He was a member of Congress again in 1813-1815. From 1789 to 1802 he was a Regent of the New York University. In 1808 he received the degree of LL.d from Harvard, and in 1811 from Dartmouth. He was the first president of the New York Historical Society, and author of a "Vindication of the Captors of Major André" (New York, 1817), and of a monograph entitled "Memoir on Dutch Names of Places" (1835).
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Koenig, Dorothy A., and Pim Nieuwenhuis. "The Pedigree of Cornelia Roos,
       an Ancestor of Franklin D. Roosevelt."  New Netherland Connections, Vol.
       3, No. 1 (1998).  1-4.
   2.  Koenig, Dorothy A., and Pim Nieuwenhuis. "The Pedigree of Cornelia Roos,
       an Ancestor of Franklin D. Roosevelt."  New Netherland Connections, Vol.
       2, No. 4 (1997).  86-91.
   3.  Riker, James, Revised History of Harlem (City of New York), Its
       Origins and Early Annals.  New York: New Harlem Publishing Company,
       1904.  427-428.
   4.  Van Deusen, Albert Harrison, Van Deursen Family. Frank Allaben
       Genealogical Company, 1912.  19-20.
   5.  Ibid., p. 3-4.
   6.  "The Daughters of Cornelis Barentsz. van der Kuyl," New Netherland
       Connection, 3 (1998):  83-85.  In the will of Cornelius Vander Kuyl,
       dated 20 June 1696 and proved 16 January 1706/1707, he makes bequests to
       "children of my daughter, Mary Van der Kuyl, named Cornelius and Egbert
       Van Borsum, sons of Henry Van Borsum, her husband, deceased..."
   7.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
       in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
       Learning Company, 1999.  1484.
   8.  Is this the child baptised as "Albert" on 26 September 1686 as recorded
       at the Reformed Dutch Church of New York (wit.:  Thymen Van Borsum and
       Grietie Fockens)?

 

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