Autographs
“Elias Boudinot” President of the Continental Congress (1782-83) Signed 1790 One Penny “First Presbyterian Church at Newark” Federal Period Issued Currency Note
ELIAS BOUDINOT (1740-1821). 10th President of the Continental Congress (1782-1783), Member of the Continental Congress, served in the First Congress of 1789, Signed the “Treaty of Paris” with Great Britain, ending the Revolutionary War, Member of the Committee on Correspondence, New Jersey Provincial Congress, Commissary-General of Prisoners, and in 1795 Appointed as Third Director of the United States Mint by George Washington.
New Jersey, First Presbyterian Church at Newark, (December 16, 1790), One Penny Currency Note, Signed, “E. Boudinot” President, as Church President, PCGS graded Very Fine-20. Wait Wait 1407. This rare Private issue listed and illustrated in Newman, on page 266. This scarce Church series was Printed by S. Kollock. Signed by Elias Boudinot as acting President of the Church. It is circulated and even in its appearance, yet superior to most we have seen. The signature “E. Boudinot” is clearly seen and fully readable, written in light brown ink. An important signature of Elias Boudinot on a rare 1790 Federal Period New Jersey privately issued Church note.
Elias Boudinot was a member of the New Jersey Committee on Correspondence (1774-1775) and the New Jersey Provincial Congress (1775). In 1777 he was appointed commissary-general of prisoners. He was a member of the Continental Congress (1777-1788; 1781-1784) and its President (1782-1783).

He signed the treaty with Great Britain to end the war. He served in first Congress of 1789; in 1795 was made the third Director of the United States Mint, and from 1816 to 1821 served as the first President of the American Bible Society.