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Letters from Elias Boudinot

B. 1740 · D. 1821

Elias Boudinot was an American Founding Father, lawyer, statesman, and early abolitionist and women's rights advocate. During the Revolutionary War, Boudinot was an intelligence officer and prisoner-of-war commissary under general George Washington, working to improve conditions for prisoners on both the American and British sides. In 1779, he was elected to the Continental Congress and then to its successor, the Congress of the Confederation, serving as President of Congress in 1782-1783, the final years of the war.

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Elias Boudinot to American Peace Commissioners, November 1, 1783

From Elias Boudinot
To American Peace Commissioners
November 1, 1783

Elias Boudinot informs the American Peace Commissioners of Congress's finalized instructions following their June and July correspondence and congratulates them on the signing of the definitive Treaty of Paris in September 1783. He expresses national joy over the treaty, anticipates the British evacuation of New York, and honors the commissioners' diplomatic efforts.

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