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Boudinot (E.) — Coutiuued. 



■witli'Tiuo portrait inserted" sold for $2.75; 

 the Murphy copy, catalogue No. 305, haU'-mo- 

 rocco, top edge gilt, broiiglit .1;1.75. Chuko & 

 Co., 18SG catalogue, No. G2S1, priced it $1.75. 



Ellas Boudinot, pliilantliropist, l)orn in Thila- 

 delpbia, V.i., May 2, 1740; died in Burlington, 

 N. J., October 24, 1821. His great-grand father, 

 Elias, was a French Huguenot, who lied to tliis 

 country after the revocation of the edict of 

 Niintcs. After receiving a clas.sical education, 

 he studied law with Eichard Stockton, and he- 

 came eminent in his prolcission, pr.acticiiig in 

 New Jersey. Ho was devoted to the patriot 

 cause. In 1777 appointed conimiasary-general 

 of prisonois, and in tlio same year elected a 

 delegate to Congress from New Jersey, serving 

 from 1778 till 1779, and again from 1781 till 178t. 

 Ho was chosen president of Congress on No- 

 vember 4'; 1782, and in that capacity signed the 

 treaty of peace with England. Uo thin ro- 

 aunied tlie practice of law, but, after the adop- 

 tion of the constitution, was elected to the fuvst, 

 .second, and third Congresses, .serving from 

 March 4, 178D, till March 3, 1795. lie was ap- 

 pointi'd by AVashington in 1795 to succeed Kit" 

 tenhouse as director of the mint at riiiladil- 

 jdiia, and held the office till July 1805, wlicn ho 

 resigned, and passed the rest of his life at Bur- 

 lington, N. J., devoted to the study of biblical 

 liter.ituro. He had an ample fortune and gave 

 liberally. He was a trustee of Princeton Col- 

 lege, and in 1805 endowed it with a cabinet of 

 natural history, valued at $3,000. In 1812 he 

 was chosen a member of the American board 

 of commissioners for foreign missions, to which 

 he gave .£100 n 1813. Ho assisted in founding 

 the American Bible Society in ISIG, was its 

 first president, and gave it $10,000. He was 

 interested in attempts to educate the Indians, 

 and when three Cherokee youth were brought 

 to the Foreign Mission School in 1818, he al- 

 lowed one of them to take his nanu\ This boy 

 became afterward a man of intluence in his 

 tribe and was murdered on June 10, 1839, by 

 Indians west of the Mississippi. Dr. Boudinot 

 was also interested in the instruction of deaf- 

 mutes, the education of young men for tlie 

 ministry, and efforts for the relief of the poor. 

 He bequeathed liis proi)erty to his only daugh- 

 ter, Mrs. Bradford, and to charitable uses. 

 Among his bequests were one of $200 to buy 

 spectacles for the aged poor, another of 13,000 

 acres of land to the mayor and corporation of 

 riiiladelphia, tliat tlic poor might be supplied 

 with wood at low prices, and another of 3,000 

 acres to the Philadelphia hospital for tlie benefit 

 of foreigners. Dr. Boudinot published "The 

 Ago of Eevelation," a reply to Payne (1790); .^.n 

 oration before the Society of the Cincinnati 

 (1793); "Second Advent of the Messiah' 

 (Trenton, 1815), and " Star in the West, or An 

 Attempt to Discover the Long-Lost Tiibes of 

 Israel " (18IG), in which ho concurs with James 

 Adair in tlie opinion thai the Indians are the 

 lo.st tribes. Ho also wrote, in "The Evangeli- 



Boudinot (E.) — Continued. 



cal Intelligencer " of ISOG, an ancnymous memoir 

 of the Rev. William Tennent, D. D.—Appleton's 

 C'jclojK of Am. Bioij. 



Boulet {Rev. J. B.), editor. Sec Youth's. 



[Bourgeois (— )] Voyages | int6re.s8ans | 

 dans ] difF6rentes colonies ] franfai-scs, | 

 cspagnoles, auglaises, &c ; i Conteuant 

 des Ob.scrvatioiis iniportantes relatives 

 ;\ CCS I contrdes; & nn MtMuoire snr les 

 Maladies les plus ' conunnnes a Saiiit- 

 Doiniugne, Icurs rciuedes, &. le j nioyen 

 de s'eu prdscrver nioralenicnt &c phisi- 

 quement: | Avec des Anecdotes sinjju- 

 lieres, qui n'avaieut jamais 6t6 j pu- 

 bli6es. I Le tont r6di<><^ & mis an jour, 

 d'aprtisiin grand nombrede ; mannscrits, 

 parM. N 1 [Scroll.] | 



A Loudres; | Et se trouve a Paris, | 

 Chez Jean-Frauvois Bastien. | M.DCC- 

 LXXXV1II[1788]. 



Half-title 1 1. title 1 1. adveitisement211. text 

 pp. 1-504, table pp. 505-507, 12'3.— Catalogue do 

 (lueIquesmots[45i de lalangue dossauvagesdu 

 Mississipi [Choctaw ], avc'e leur signification en 

 Fran§ais, pp. 296-297. 



Copies seen : Congress. 



Brantz (LewLs). Some word.s from tbo 

 language of the Cboctaws. 



In Schoolcraft (H. E.), Indian Tiibes, vol.3, 

 p. 317, Philadelphia, 1853, 4°. 



Brinley : This word following a title or within 

 p.areutheses after a note indicates tli.at a copy 

 of the work referred to was seen by the com- 

 piler at the a.ale of books belonging to tbo late 

 George Brinley, of Hartford, Conn. 



Brinley (George). See Trumbull (J. 

 H.) 



Brinton : This word following a title or within 

 parentheses after a note indicates that a coiiy 

 of the work referred to has been seen by the 

 compiler in the library of Dr. D. (r. Brinton, 

 Media, Pa. 



Brinton {Dr. Daniel Garrison). The 

 Natchez of Louisiana, au oiTshoot of the 

 civilized nations of Central America. 

 By D. G. Brinton, M. D. 



In Historical Mag. second series, vol. 1, pp. 

 lC-18, Morrisania, N. Y., 18C7, am. 4=. 



Contains a few words of Choctaw and other 

 Muskhogean languages. 



The National legend of the Chahta- 



Muskokee tribes. By D. G. Brinton, 

 M. J). 



In Historical Mag. second series, vol. 7, 

 pp. 118-126, Morrisania, N. Y. 1870, sm. 4^. 



Contains a few native- terms with English 



