# Benjamin Ellicott > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Benjamin_Ellicott > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Benjamin_Ellicott.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ellicott > Source revision: 1339513122 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{short description|American politician}} {{Infobox Congressman | honorific_prefix = | name = | honorific_suffix = | image = Benjamin Ellicott.jpg | alt = An portrait illustration of Benjamin Ellicott | caption = Ellicott {{circa|1822}} | state = New York | district = 21st | alongside = [John C. Spencer](/source/John_C._Spencer) | term_start = March 4, 1817 | term_end = March 4, 1819 | predecessor = {{unbulleted list |[Micah Brooks](/source/Micah_Brooks)|[Archibald S. Clarke](/source/Archibald_S._Clarke)}} | successor = {{unbulleted list |[Albert H. Tracy](/source/Albert_H._Tracy)|[Nathaniel Allen](/source/Nathaniel_Allen)}} | birth_date = {{Birth date|1765|04|17}} | birth_place = [Bucks County, Pennsylvania](/source/Bucks_County%2C_Pennsylvania), USA | death_date = {{Death date and age|1827|12|10|1765|04|17}} | death_place = [Williamsville, New York](/source/Williamsville%2C_New_York), USA | resting_place = Williamsville Cemetery }} '''Benjamin Ellicott''' (April 17, 1765 – December 10, 1827) was a [surveyor](/source/surveying), a county [judge](/source/judge) and a member of the [United States House of Representatives](/source/United_States_House_of_Representatives) from the [State of New York](/source/New_York_(state)). ==Biography== Ellicott was born in [Bucks County, Pennsylvania](/source/Bucks_County%2C_Pennsylvania), on April 17, 1765. In 1789, at approximately 24 years old, he accompanied his brothers [Andrew](/source/Andrew_Ellicott) and [Joseph Ellicott](/source/Joseph_Ellicott) in 1789 to the [British](/source/Great_Britain) Province of [Upper Canada](/source/Upper_Canada) in a survey to determine the western boundary of the [State of New York](/source/New_York_(state))."Benjamin Ellicott" ''in'' {{cite journal|last=Bartlett|first=G. Hunter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DdMwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA33|title=Andrew and Joseph Ellicott: The Plans of Washington City and the Village of Buffalo and Some of the Persons Concerned|pages=33–36|journal=Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society|volume=26|editor=Frank H. Severance|publisher=Buffalo Historical Society|location=Buffalo, New York|year=1922|access-date=December 26, 2014}} At [Google Books](/source/Google_Books). During 1791, 1792 and 1793, he assisted his brothers in the survey and mapping of the future [City of Washington](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.) and in the survey of the original boundaries of the {{convert|100|sqmi|km2}} District of Columbia, which were established in the [Boundary Markers of the Original District of Columbia](/source/Boundary_Markers_of_the_Original_District_of_Columbia).(1) {{cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_D_ZJBxoCYeAC_2|title=Standard History of the City of Washington From a Study of the Original Sources|last=Tindall|first=William|chapter=IV. The First Board of Commissioners|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_D_ZJBxoCYeAC_2/page/n155 147]|location=Knoxville, Tennessee|publisher=H. W. Crew and Company|year=1914}} At [Google Books](/source/Google_Books).
(2) {{cite book |title=Andrew Ellicott: His Life and Letters |chapter=Chapter IV: The City of Washington in the Territory of [Columbia](/source/Columbia_(name)), 1791–1793 |url=https://archive.org/details/andrewellicotth03mathgoog |author=Mathews, Catharine Van Cortlandt |year=1908 |publisher=Grafton Press |pages=[https://archive.org/details/andrewellicotth03mathgoog/page/n45 81]–86}} At [Google Books](/source/Google_Books).
(3) {{cite journal|last=Bedini|first=Silvio A.|jstor=40072968|title=The Survey of the Federal Territory: Andrew Ellicott and Benjamin Banneker|journal=Washington History|location=Washington, D.C.|publisher=[Historical Society of Washington, D.C.](/source/Historical_Society_of_Washington%2C_D.C.)|volume=3|date=Spring–Summer 1991|number=1|page=91}} During November–December 1792, he led a survey that helped settle a boundary dispute within the present [Ontario County](/source/Ontario_County%2C_New_York) in [Western New York](/source/Western_New_York), which was resolved with the establishment of the [Preemption Line](/source/Preemption_Line).(1) {{cite web|last=Henry|first=Marian S.|title=The Phelps-Gorham Purchase|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227102401/http://www.americanancestors.org/the-phelps-gorham-purchase/|archive-date=February 27, 2014|url=http://www.americanancestors.org/the-phelps-gorham-purchase/|date= February 25, 2000|access-date=December 31, 2012}}
(2) {{cite book |title=History of Ontario County, New York |last=Aldrich |first=Lewis Cass |editor=George S. Conover|year=1893|publisher=D. Mason & Co.|location=Syracuse, NY |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofontario00aldr|pages=[https://archive.org/details/historyofontario00aldr/page/94 94]–95}} At [Google Books](/source/Google_Books). From 1794–1797, he was employed as a surveyor and [draftsman](/source/technical_drawing) for the [Holland Land Company](/source/Holland_Land_Company), assisting his brother Joseph in surveys of the company's lands in western [Pennsylvania](/source/Pennsylvania).(1) {{cite web |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221201133/http://www.nyheritage.org/collections/holland-land-company-maps |archive-date=February 21, 2014 |url=http://www.nyheritage.org/collections/holland-land-company-maps |title=Holland Land Company Maps |publisher=New York Heritage |year=2013 |access-date=December 27, 2014 }}
(2) {{cite web |last=Weissend |first=Patrick R. |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6V7upelTO?url=http://tpsjamestown.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Life+and+Times+of+Joseph+Ellicott.pdf |archive-date=December 27, 2014 |url=http://tpsjamestown.wikispaces.com/file/view/The+Life+and+Times+of+Joseph+Ellicott.pdf |title=The Life and Times of Joseph Ellicott |work=Holland Land Office Museum |publisher=Holland Purchase Historical Society |location=Batavia, New York |year=2002 |access-date=December 27, 2014 |url-status=dead }} In 1798, he was in charge of the company's surveys in [Western New York](/source/Western_New_York). In 1803, he became one of the first judges of the [Court of Common Pleas](/source/New_York_Court_of_Common_Pleas) of [Genesee County, New York](/source/Genesee_County%2C_New_York) in [Batavia](/source/Batavia%2C_New_York). Ellicott was elected as a [Democratic-Republican](/source/Democratic-Republican) representative from New York to the [Fifteenth Congress](/source/15th_United_States_Congress) (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1819) for the 21st District.{{cite web|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724172803/http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000118|archive-date=July 24, 2014|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=E000118|title=Ellicott, Benjamin, (1765 - 1827)|work=[Biographical Directory of the United States Congress](/source/Biographical_Directory_of_the_United_States_Congress)|access-date=December 26, 2014}} He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1820 to the [Seventeenth Congress](/source/17th_United_States_Congress) and succeeded by [Nathaniel Allen](/source/Nathaniel_Allen). ==Death== He then retired from active life, and in 1826 moved to [Williamsville, New York](/source/Williamsville%2C_New_York), where he died December 10, 1827. He was interred at the graveyard in Williamsville (Williamsville Cemetery c. 1810). He was re-interred at [Batavia Cemetery](/source/Batavia_Cemetery) in [Batavia, New York](/source/Batavia%2C_New_York), in 1849. ==References== {{reflist}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|us-hs}} {{US House succession box | state=New York | district=21 | before=[Micah Brooks](/source/Micah_Brooks),
[Archibald S. Clarke](/source/Archibald_S._Clarke) | after=[Albert H. Tracy](/source/Albert_H._Tracy),
[Nathaniel Allen](/source/Nathaniel_Allen) | years=1817–1819
with [John C. Spencer](/source/John_C._Spencer) }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}} ==External links== *[https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=83100 "Benjamin Ellicott"] at [Historical Marker Database](/source/Historical_Marker_Database) {{DEFAULTSORT:Ellicott, Benjamin}} Category:1765 births Category:1827 deaths Category:American surveyors Category:Democratic-Republican Party United States representatives from New York (state) Category:New York state court judges Category:Politicians from Bucks County, Pennsylvania Category:People from Williamsville, New York Category:19th-century United States representatives --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Benjamin Ellicott](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ellicott) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Ellicott?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.