BENJAMIN POND

POND, Benjamin (1768-1814), a Representative from New York; born in Stockbridge, Berkshire, Mass., in 1768; attended the common schools; moved to Poultney, Vt., and thence to that part of the town of Crown Point (later Schroon) now comprised in the town of North Hudson, N.Y., in 1800; engaged in agricultural pursuits; justice of the peace and supervisor in 1804; judge of the court of common pleas of Essex County in 1808, with residence in Schroon; member of the State assembly 1808-1810; elected as a Republican to the Twelfth Congress (March 4, 1811-March 3, 1813); served in the War of 1812 and participated in the siege and Battle of Plattsburg in September 1814 as a volunteer in Capt. Russell Walker’s company of the Thirty-seventh Regiment, New York Militia; elected to the Fourteenth Congress but died of disease, incurred through exposure at the siege of Plattsburg, in Schroon, Essex, N.Y., October 6, 1814, before the beginning of the congressional term; interment in Pine Ridge Cemetery, North Hudson, Essex County, N.Y.; reinterment in Riverside Cemetery, Elizabethtown, Essex County, N.Y., September 3, 1923.

Sources:
The Political Graveyard
Submitted by Deborah Crowell