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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyBOUDINOT, Elias
(1740—1821)
BOUDINOT, Elias, a Delegate and a Representative from New Jersey; born in Philadelphia, Pa., May 2, 1740; received a classical education; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1760 and commenced practice in Elizabethtown, N.J.; member of the board of trustees of Princeton College 1772-1821; member of the committee of safety in 1775; commissary general of prisoners in the Revolutionary Army 1776-1779; Member of the Continental Congress in 1778, 1781, 1782 and 1783, serving as President in 1782 and 1783, and signing the treaty of peace with England; resumed the practice of law; elected as a Pro-Administration candidate to the First, Second, and Third Congresses (March 4, 1789-March 3, 1795); was not a candidate for renomination in 1794 to the Fourth Congress; Director of the Mint from October 1795 to July 1805, when he resigned; elected first president of the American Bible Society, in 1816; died in Burlington, Burlington County, N.J., October 24, 1821; interment in St. Mary’s Protestant Episcopal Church Cemetery.
Bibliography
Boyd, George Adams. Elias Boudinot: Patriot and Statesman, 1740-1821
. 1952. Reprint, Westwood, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1969.
Boudinot, Elias. The Age of Revelation, or, The Age of Reason Shewn To Be An Age of Infidelity
. Philadelphia: Published by Asbury Dickins, Opposite Christ-church. Hugh Maxwell, printer, Columbia-House, 1801.
———. Documents in Relation to the Validity of the Cherokee Treaty... Letters and Other Papers Relating to Cherokee Affairs: Being a Reply to Sundry Publications Authorized by John Ross
. [Washington]: Blair & Rives, printers, [1838].
———. Exchange of Major-General Charles Lee
. From a Manuscript of Elias Boudinot. With notes by William S. Baker. Philadelphia: Printed by J.B. Lippincott Company, 1891.
———. Journal of Events in the Revolution
. [New York]: New York Times, [1968].
———. Journal or Historical Recollections of American Events During the Revolutionary War
. Philadelphia: F. Bourquin, 1894.
———. Life of the Rev. William Tennent, Formerly Pastor of the presbyterian Church at Freehold in New Jersey - In Which is Contained... An Account of His Being Three Days in a Trance, and Apparently Lifeless
. Hartford, Conn.: S. Andrus and Son, 1845.
———. A Star in the West; or, A Humble Attempt to Discover the Long Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, Preparatory to Their Return to Their Beloved City, Jerusalem
. 1816. Reprint, Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, [1970].
Boudinot, Elias, and J. J. Boudinot, ed. The Life, Public Services, Addresses, and Letters of Elias Boudinot
. 1896. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
Boudinot, Elias, and Milton Halsey Thomas, ed. Journey to Boston in 1809
. Princeton, N.J.: University Library, 1955.
Boyd, George Adams. Elias Boudinot: Patriot and Statesman, 1740-1821.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1952.
Boyle, Joseph Lee. Their Distress is Almost Intolerable: The Elias Boudinot Letterbook, 1777-1778
. 1952. Reprint, Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 2002.
Clark, Barbara Louise. E.B.: The Story of Elias Boudinot IV, His Family, His Friends, and His Country.
Ardmore, PA: Dorrance, 1977.
Egbert, Donald Drew, and Lee Diane Martindell. Princeton Portraits,
pp. 181-3.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947.
McCormick, Richard P. “New Jersey’s First Congressional Election, 1789: a Case Study in Political Skulduggery.” William and Mary Quarterly
3S.6 (April 1949): 237-50.
Perdue, Theda, ed. Cherokee Editor: The Writings of Elias Boudinot
. 1983. Reprint, Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Whisenhunt, Donald W. Elias Boudinot
. Trenton, N.J.: New Jersey Historical Commission, 1975.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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