Elias Boudinot

Fourth President of the United States in Congress Assembled: November 4, 1782 to November 3, 1783 Copyright © Stan Klos , President Who? Forgotten Founders 2004 & 2008 Students and Teachers of US History this is a video of Stanley and Christopher Klos presenting America's Four United Republics Curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton... School. The December 2015 video was an impromptu capture by a member of the audience of Penn students, professors and guests that numbered about 200. Elias Boudinot was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 2, 1740. His great-grandfather, Elias Boudinot, was a Huguenot, who fled France after a series of King Louis XIVs edicts that methodically revoked the decree of Nante reinstituting religious persecution. Elias Boudinots grandfather settled first in New York in 1687 and there Elias Boudinot II, was born to his wife, Marie Carree, on August 3, 1706. In 1721 Boudinots father apprenticed as a silversmith with Simeon Soumain in New York City. In 1729 he immigrated to Antigua in the West Indies where he worked as a silversmith until 1737. On the island he courted and married Mary Catherine Williams whose family was originally from Wales. Over the next twenty years they had nine children. The first, John, was born in Antigua. Of the others, only the younger Elias and three of his siblings Annis, Mary, and Elisha reached adulthood. The silversmith couple relocated to Philadelphia in 1738 and there, in 1740, Elias Boudinot was born. An advertisement from the September 10, 1747 Pennsylvania Gazette, announced that "Elias Buddinot, silversmith, is removed from the house next door to the Post-office, in Market-street." The family would move to Princeton, New Jersey in 1753 operating both a silversmith shop and the local post office. "As a boy he had played along its fertile street when his father's silversmith shop was also the village post office." [i] In Princeton, Boudinots sister Annis was a standout in the community due to her beauty, charisma, and exceptional ...Read More