American lawyer and statesman (1740–1821) who served as President of the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1783 and later became a U.S. Representative from New Jersey and director of the United States Mint. ALS, one page trimmed along the bottom to 7.75 x 7.5, November 25, 1816. Boudinot writes to Elihu Chauncey at the Bank of Pennsylvania. In part: “As fact hereof, I send a check on your bank for $6000 in favour of Stephen N. Bayard Esqr. now at Albany in the State of New York. He requests that you will be so good as to carry it to his credit in your books of the bank, that he may draw on you for it, as he may want it. Mr. Bayard is a gentn. of the first character & fortune in the City of New York….” The adjacent leaf bears the handwritten address panel. Trimming as noted, intersecting folds (vertical fold to last name) and faint scattered spotting, otherwise fine condition. R&R COA.
