Egbert Benson

Egbert Benson was a lawyer, jurist, politician from Upper Red Hook, New York, and a Founding Father of the United States who represented New York in the Continental Congress, Annapolis Convention, and the United States House of Representatives, and who served as a member of the New York State constitutional convention in 1788 which ratified the United States Constitution. He also served as the first Attorney General of the State of New York, Chief Justice of the New York Supreme Court, and as a judge and Chief Judge on the United States Circuit Court for the Second Circuit.

Bensons ancestor, Dirck Benson, who settled in New York City in 1649, was the founder of the Benson family in America. Egbert Benson was born in New York City, the son of Robert Benson and Catherine Benson . The Benson family was one of the earliest Dutch families to have settled in Manhattan. In a letter written to Arthur D. Benson, Egbert Benson lived at the corner of Puntine and Fulton streets in the home of William Puntine. The house was apparently not numbered until 1907, when it became No. 436 Fulton Street. In 1938, Puntine Street became 165th Street, while Fulton Street became Jamaica Avenue. His home was one of the centers of cultural life in New York City. Benson lived with his maternal grandmother, a widow who lived in Borad Street, at the corner of Beaver, during the early part of his life.

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