Elias Boudinot
BIRTH
May 2, 1740
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
DEATH
October 24, 1821
Burlington, New Jersey
President of the Continental Congress
Nov 4, 1782 - Nov 3, 1783
FAMILY
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Boudinot, Elias
(1740-1821)
Elias Boudinot was a New Jersey lawyer, Patriot statesman, and commissary general of prisoners for the Continental Army. He served in the Continental Congress, became its president in 1782, and later signed the Treaty of Paris ratification proclamation.
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WIFE
Hannah Stockton Boudinot
(1736-1808)
Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Independence National Historical Park | 520 Chestnut St, Philadelphia, PA 19106 | MUSEUM |
DIED:
Burlington, New Jersey
Oct 24, 1821
Elias Boudinot was born on May 2, 1740 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Elias Boudinot with work or public activity as a lawyer, soldier, statesman. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Elias Boudinot died on Oct 24, 1821 in Burlington, New Jersey. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.