Newark, 1817. Stock certificate for 6 shares issued to Elias Boudinot. In 1806, the New Jersey General Assembly chartered the Essex and Middlesex Turnpike. The goal of the road was to both improve the New Brunswick to Newark road and to connect the road with the Trenton and New Brunswick Turnpike in New Brunswick. Elias' brother and future Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey Elisha Boudinot was a commissioner and majority shareholder of the company from the onset.
BOUDINOT, ELIAS (1740-1821). Revolutionary statesman. Boudinot was a close friend of Washington's, and a tireless supporter of the Revolution and the fledgling federal government. He was a member of the N.J. Committee of Safety, 1775; commissary general of prisoners of the Continental Army, 1776-79; N.J. delegate to the Continental Congress, 1777-1784, and its president, 1782-83; signer of the peace treaty with Great Britain which ended the revolutionary war; member of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789-95; and director of the U.S. Mint, 1795-1805. In early 1793, he led the defense on the attack on Hamilton's conduct of the federal Treasury.
