On May 5, 1777, General George Washington asked for him to be made commissary general for prisoners. Congress through the board of war concurred. Boudinot was made a colonel in the Continental Army for this task.
After being elected to the Congress from his home state of New Jersey, he served as the new nation's Secretary for Foreign Affairs — managing the influx of aid from France, Spain, and Holland. Then in 1783 he was elected to the Presidency of the Continental Congress. He served in that office from November 4, 1782 until November 2, 1783. Like so many of the other early presidents, he was a classically trained scholar, of the Reformed faith, and an anti-federalist in political matters. He was the father and grandfather of frontiersmen — and one of his grandchildren and namesakes eventually became a leader of the Cherokee nation in its bid for independence from the sprawling expansion of the United States.
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