21 Facts About Elias Boudinot

Elias Boudinot was an American Founding Father, lawyer, statesman, and early abolitionist and women's rights advocate.

Elias Boudinot was a member of the board of trustees of Princeton College from 1772 to 1821, the year of his death.

Elias Boudinot's father, Elias Boudinot III, was a merchant and silversmith; he was a neighbor and friend of Benjamin Franklin.

Elias Boudinot's mother, Mary Catherine Williams, was born in the British West Indies; her father was from Wales.

Elisha Elias Boudinot became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

In 1760, Elias Boudinot was admitted to the bar and began his practice in Elizabeth, New Jersey.

Elias Boudinot owned land adjacent to the road from Elizabethtown to Woodbridge Township, New Jersey.

Hannah died a few years after their move, and Elias Boudinot lived there for the remainder of his years.

Elias Boudinot owned large tracts in Ohio including most of Green Township in what is the western suburbs of Cincinnati, where there is a street bearing his surname.

Elias Boudinot was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's Church, Burlington, New Jersey.

Elias Boudinot was commissioned as a colonel in the Continental Army for this work.

In 1781, Elias Boudinot returned to the Congress, for a term lasting through 1783.

Elias Boudinot was elected to the second and third congresses as well, where he generally supported the administration.

Elias Boudinot refused to join the expansion of affiliated groups that formed formal political parties.

Elias Boudinot was one of nine representatives to vote against the Eleventh Amendment to the United States Constitution.

Elias Boudinot served as one of the trustees of the College of New Jersey for nearly half a century, from 1772 until 1821.

Elias Boudinot was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1814.

Elias Boudinot wrote The Age of Revelation in response to Thomas Paine's The Age of Reason.

Elias Boudinot was one of the founders of the American Bible Society, and after 1816 served as its president.

Elias Boudinot argued for the rights of black and American Indian citizens, and sponsored students to the Board School for Indians in Connecticut.

Later known as Elias Boudinot, he was an editor of the Cherokee Phoenix, the nation's first newspaper, which was published in Cherokee and English.