1From Thomas Jefferson to Elias Boudinot, 29 June 1790 (Jefferson Papers)
As it is desireable that we should receive from our Consuls an exact report of all our vessels with their cargoes which go to the countries of their residence, such fees appear necessary as may induce them to be watchful that every such vessel is noted. At the same time the fee should not be so large as to induce them to connive at foreign vessels reporting themselves as American, merely to...
2From George Washington to Elias Boudinot, 27 November 1793 (Washington Papers)
I have been duly favoured with your letter of the 12th instt and the Pamphlet which accompanied it. I am sensible of the honor you have done me in the Address, and am grateful for the flattering expression of it. Sure I am, I shall peruse the sentiments which you have breathed in the Pamphlet with pleasure as soon as my leizure will allow me to read it. At present I am occupied in collecting &...
3From Alexander Hamilton to Elias Boudinot, 7 July 1796 (Hamilton Papers)
You will oblige me by letting me have an Extract from that part of your Mortgage law in New Jersey which regulates the mode of cancelling Mortgages —also an extract from the Registering Book of the usual manner in which entries for cancelling were made about the years 1771, 1772 and 1773—and by informing me whether these Entries have been adjudged conclusive —though the order or certificate of...