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Elias Boudinot

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Boudinot, formerly of the Continental Congress, writes in his private capacity as a lawyer, touching on a number of cases.

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[recto] Elizabeth Town Feb’y 24’ 1797 D SIr A long Absence from home, prevented the receipt of your Letters relative to Sir Rob Barkers Affair till about Ten days ago _ A multiplenty of more important Business necessarily engaged my attention on my return, till within a few days, I embraced the first Opportunity, of Considering the Papers sent me_ I have spent three Days on it and have given it a full Consideration, and have weighed every Objection ag. the Title, and am Convinced of the Propriety of requiring an Ejectment_ Enclosed you have the Result of my Reflections on the Subject_ I keep the Papers you sent me as I suppose they are Copies made out for the Purpose [illegible] if not I will return them on Notice_ Mr Franklin presses [prefers] me to bring an Action on your Note I mention to you_ Do Endeavour to settle it before Court, so as to prevent such a disagreeale Consequence_ Will you be so kind as to forward me all Lord Drummonds Survey, or rather Captain Drummonds that remain in your Office, also an Account of what Rights he is entitled to under the new dividend with a certified copy of the warrants_ When you get Mess ‘Patterson of Ogden’, [verso] Opinions you had better Exchange Copies with each after which, will be the Time for a Meeting_ I am D Sir Your Hble Servt [signed Elias Boudinot James Parker Esq

Creation Date

2-24-1779

City

Elizabeth

County

Union County

State/Province

New Jersey

Country

United States

Creator Life Dates

1740-1821

Keywords

Elias Boudinot, James Parker, Elizabethtown, New Jersey, 1787, Robert Barker, Lord Drummon, Captain Drummon

Resource Identifier

071025-06

Date Digital

2-18-2014

Document Type

Manuscript

Disciplines

History | Legal | United States History

Publisher

Wofford College

Format (medium)

manuscript

Format (IMT)

PDF

Language

En-us

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800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.

Source

The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.

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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License.

Elias Boudinot letter to James Parker on legal matters. Elizabethtown, N.J., 1787.

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