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BOUDINOT, ELIAS (1740-1821)

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BOUDINOT, See also:ELIAS (1740-1821) , See also:American revolutionary See also:leader, was See also:born at See also:Philadelphia, See also:Pennsylvania, of Huguenot descent, on the and of May 1740. He studied See also:law at See also:Princeton, New See also:Jersey, in the See also:office of See also:Richard See also:Stockton, whose See also:sister Hannah he married in 1762, and in See also:November 176o he was licensed as a counsellor and See also:attorney-at-law, afterwards practising at Elizabethtown, New Jersey. On the approach of the See also:War of See also:Independence he allied himself with the conservative Whigs. He was a See also:deputy to the provincial See also:congress of New Jersey from May to See also:August 1775, and from May 1777 until See also:July 1778 was the See also:commissary-See also:general of prisoners, with the See also:rank of See also:colonel, in the See also:continental See also:army. He was one of the New Jersey members of the continental congress in 1778 and again from 1781 until 1783, and from November 1782 until See also:October 1783 was See also:president of that See also:body, acting also for a See also:short See also:time, after the resignation of See also:Robert R. See also:Livingston, as secretary for See also:foreign affairs. From 1789 to 1795 he sat as a member of the See also:national See also:House of Representatives, and from 1795 until 18os he was the director of the See also:United States See also:mint at Philadelphia. He took an active See also:part in the See also:founding of the American See also:Bible Society in 1816, of which he became the first president. He was a trustee and a benefactor of the See also:college of New Jersey (afterwards Princeton University). In reply to See also:Thomas See also:Paine's See also:Age of See also:Reason, he published the Age of See also:Revelation (1790); he also published a See also:volume entitled A See also:Star in the See also:West, or a Humble See also:Attempt to Discover the See also:Long Lost Ten Tribes of See also:Israel (1816), in which he endeavours to prove that the American See also:Indians may be the ten lost tribes. Boudinot died at See also:Burlington, New Jersey, on the 24th of October 1821. See The See also:Life, Public Services, Addresses and Letters of Elias Boudinot, edited by J.

J. Boudinot (See also:

Boston and New See also:York, 1896).

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