Elias Boudinot

:For other people with the same name, see Elias Boudinot (disambiguation).

Personal history

Elias Boudinot was the grandson of Elie (sometimes called Elias) Boudinot. Ellie was the son of Jean Boudinot and Marie Suire of Marans, Aunis, France, a Huguenot (Protestant) family who fled to New York about 1687 to avoid the religious persecutions of King Louis XIV. His son, also Elias, was a silversmith, and a neighbor and friend of Benjamin Franklin in Philadelphia. The third generaton and subject, Elias, was born in Philadelphia on May 2, 1740. After tutoring and study at home, he went to Princeton, New Jersey to read the law with another attorney. His mentor was Richard Stockton (1730-1781), who later signed the Declaration of Independence. In 1760 he was admitted to the bar, and began his practice in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He owned land adjacent to the road from Elizabethtown to Woodbridge, NJ.

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France - Huguenot - Benjamin Franklin - Philadelphia - May 2 - 1740 - Princeton, New Jersey - Richard Stockton (1730-1781) - Declaration of Independence - Elizabeth, New Jersey

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Then on April 21, 1762 he married Richard's sister, Hannah Stockton (1736-1808). Elias and Hannah would have only one child, Susan Boudinot Bradford. Susan married William Bradford who became Chief Justice of Pennsylvania and Washington's Attorney General. After Bradford's death in 1795, Susan came back to make her home with her father and edit his papers, which are a light into the events of the Revolutionary era. Elias' only brother, Elisha, became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey.

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April 21 - 1762 - Susan Boudinot Bradford - William Bradford - Pennsylvania - Attorney General

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In 1805 Elias moved his family to a new home in Burlington, New Jersey and lived there the rest of his life. In his later years he invested and speculated in land. He owned large tracts in Ohio including most of Green Township in what is now the western suburbs of Cincinnati. On his death he willed 13,000 acres to the city of Philadelphia for parks and city needs.

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1805 - Burlington, New Jersey - Ohio - Green Township - Cincinnati

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Boudinot died at home in Burlington on October 24, . He is buried in St. Mary's Episcopal Churchyard on West Broad Street there.

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