On the third day Allen was exchanged for Colonel Archibald Campbell, who was conducted to the exchange by Colonel Elias Boudinot, the American commissary general of prisoners appointed by General George Washington.

Elias Boudinot ( ; May 2, 1740 – October 24, 1821 ) was a lawyer and statesman from Elizabeth, New Jersey who was a delegate to the Continental Congress and was elected as a U. S. Congressman for New Jersey following the American Revolutionary War.

Elias Boudinot was born in Philadelphia on May 2, 1740.

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

Elias ' paternal grandfather, Elie ( sometimes called Elias ) Boudinot, was the son of Jean Boudinot and Marie Suire of Marans, Aunis, France.

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

When the United States ( US ) government was formed in 1789, Boudinot was elected from New Jersey to the US House of Representatives.

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

A printing press was established at New Echota by the Vermont missionary Samuel Worcester and Major Ridge's nephew Elias Boudinot, who had taken the name of his white benefactor, a leader of the Continental Congress and New Jersey Congressman.

After Ridge had married a European-American woman from Connecticut and Boudinot was engaged to another, the Cherokee Council in 1825 passed a law making children of such unions full citizens of the tribe, as if their mothers were Cherokee.

Hughes was born in Lansing, Michigan, to a mother, Ryan Boudinot, T Cooper, Quinn Dalton, Emily Franklin, Lisa Gabriele, Tod Goldberg, Nina de Gramont, Tara Ison, Allison Lynn, John McNally, Dan Pope, Lewis Robinson, Ben Schrank, Elizabeth Searle, Mary Sullivan, Rebecca Wolff, and Moon Unit Zappa.

Vinita was established in 1871 by Elias Cornelius Boudinot.

His wife was poet Annis Boudinot Stockton, sister of New Jersey statesman Elias Boudinot.

Elias Boudinot was married to Stockton's sister Hannah Stockton ( 1736 – 1808 ).

The first President was Elias Boudinot, who was also President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783 and later Director of the U. S. Mint.

Chosen as a delegate to the Arkansas secession convention, Boudinot served as a colonel in the Confederate States Army, and was elected as an Arkansas Territory representative in the Confederate Congress.

Commissioned as an officer, Boudinot reached the rank of lieutenant colonel.

In November 1777, the New Jersey legislature named Boudinot as one of their delegates to the Second Continental Congress.

* Elias Boudinot ( 1740 – 1821 ), President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783.

In Burlington, New Jersey, the young men met Elias Boudinot, president of the American Bible Society and a former member and president of the Second Continental Congress.

* Elias Boudinot ( 1740 – 1821 ) American revolutionary and President of the Continental Congress.

* Elias Boudinot, NJ delegate to Continental Congress.

During the American Civil War, Boudinot fought for the Confederate States Army under his uncle Stand Watie.

On May 5, 1777, General George Washington asked Boudinot to be appointed as commissary general for prisoners.

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

Boudinot served as one of the trustees of the College of New Jersey ( later Princeton University ) for nearly half a century, from 1772 until 1821.

The next day, Congressman Boudinot proposed that the House and Senate jointly request of President Washington to proclaim a day of thanksgiving for “ the many signal favors of Almighty God .” Boudinot said that he

* 1839 – Cherokee leaders Major Ridge, John Ridge, and Elias Boudinot are assassinated for signing the Treaty of New Echota, which had resulted in the Trail of Tears.

As the Cherokee began to adopt some elements of European-American culture in the early 19th century, they sent elite young men, such as John Ridge and Elias Boudinot to American schools for education.

Realizing that the practice of adding one star per state could quickly clutter the coin's design, U. S. Mint Director Elias Boudinot ordered a design alteration, to feature just 13 stars ( for the original Thirteen Colonies ).

Boudinot believed that removal was inevitable and argued for a treaty to preserve Cherokee rights.

Watie asked Boudinot for permission to use his name, which he gave.

When enrolled at the Foreign Mission School, Watie started using the name Elias Boudinot, which he kept for the rest of his life.

After his return to New Echota, in 1828 Boudinot was selected by the General Council of the Cherokee as editor for a newspaper, the first to be published by a Native American nation.

In 1832, while on a speaking tour of the North to raise funds for the Phoenix, Boudinot learned that, in Worcester v. Georgia, the US Supreme Court had sustained the Cherokee rights to political and territorial sovereignty within Georgia's borders.

In this context, Boudinot began advocating for his people to secure the best possible terms with the US by making a binding treaty of removal.

Boudinot began to lobby for Native Americans to be granted United States citizenship in order to be protected by the Constitution.

In 1839, when Boudinot was four years old, his father and other Treaty Party leaders were assassinated by Cherokee opponents for having given up the tribal lands.

Elias Boudinot, as one of these commissaries, was competing with other agents seeking to gather supplies for George Washington's army at Valley Forge.

When Elias Boudinot was appointed Commissary General of Prisoners, responsible for screening captured soldiers and for dealing with the British concerning American patriots whom they held prisoner, Washington recognized that the post offered " better opportunities than most other officers in the army, to obtain knowledge of the Enemy's Situation, motions and ... designs ," and added to Boudinot's responsibilities " the procuring of intelligence.

In the following months, Ridge found supporters for the removal option, including his father Major Ridge and the major's nephews Elias Boudinot and Stand Watie.

The General Council in October 1835 rejected the proposed treaty but appointed a committee to go to Washington City to negotiate a removal treaty, a committee including not only John Ross but treaty advocates John Ridge, Charles Vann, and Elias Boudinot ( who was later replaced by Stand Watie ), to represent the Cherokee Nation East for a removal treaty with the stipulation that it has to be for more than five million dollars.