Their Distress is Almost Intolerable: The Elias Boudinot Letterbook, 1777-1778 by Joseph Lee Boyle

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

Joseph Lee Boyle

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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, and wrote his wife he was drawn into "the bo...

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