2 May 1740 A.D. PHILADELPHIA: Episcopal Elias Boudinot Born
2 May 1740 A.D. PHILADELPHIA: Episcopal Elias Boudinot Born—Huguenot Ancestry, Lawyer, 1 st President of “U.S. Congress” in 1784, Founder/President of American Bible Society, and Board Member of old Princeton Seminary Graves, Dan. “Boudinot, Bible Society Founder.” Christianity.com. May 2007. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/1701-1800/boudinot-bible-society-founder-11630234.html . Accessed 1 May 2015. Do you know all of the presidents of the United States? Does Elias Boudinot ring a bell? He was chosen President of the United States "in Congress assembled" on November 4, 1782. It was in his capacity as president that he signed the peace treaty with England that brought an end to the Revolutionary War. But his importance to Christian history lies in another direction. Elias Boudinot was born on this day, May 2, 1740 in Philadelphia. One of his ancestors was a French Protestant who had fled from France when King Louis XIV took pro...