Contee, Benjamin
clergyman, was born in 1755 in Maryland. He became a clergyman of the protestant episcopal church. In 1776 he was an officer in the third Maryland battalion. He was a member of the continental congress in 1787-88, and was elected to the first congress under the constitution, in which body he voted in 1790 for establishing the seat of government on the Potomac. Subsequently he became the presiding judge of the Charles county, Md., testamentary court. He died Nov. 3, 1815, in Charles county, Md.