Their Distress Is Almost Intolerable : The Elias Boudinot Letterbook, 1777-1778

Joseph Lee Boyle
Heritage Books
9780788422102
0-7884-2210-3

Elias Boudinot, a prominent attorney in New Jersey, was appointed the first Commissary General of Prisoners by George Washington on April 1, 1777. Though reluctant to take the assignment, he did accept,.

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and wrote his wife he was drawn into "the boisterous