- unitid
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{"value"=>"1144", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"b12361330", "type"=>"local_b"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 1144", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1675-1846", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1675/1846"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Gerry-Townsend papers"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>".84 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"2 boxes, 2 volumes, 1 other item", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\"> The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">Stephen A. Schwarzman Building</span> <span class=\"addressline\"> Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Gerry-Townsend family of Massachusetts included statesman Elbridge Gerry (1744-1814). The collection consists of correspondence of Elbridge Gerry, 1773-1814, and his son-in-law David S. Townsend, 1812-1846); legal papers and accounts of Eliza Gerry, administrator of Elbridge Gerry's estate; deeds, mortgages, and other land papers concerning lands owned by the Gerry and Townsend families in Boston; and diary, 1813, Elbridge Gerry, Jr. kept during a journey from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Washington, D.C. Includes letters relating to Gerry's mission to France, 1797-1798 (the XYZ Affair), and to national politics. Correspondents include John Adams, William Gordon, Gideon Granger, Thomas Jefferson, James Lovell, James Madison, W. Vans Murray, George Partridge, C.C. Pinckney, Samuel Osgood, Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., James Warren, James Wendell, and John Wendell."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p> Gerry-Townsend papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p> Annette Townsend Phillips (great, great-granddaughter of Elbridge Gerry)</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"type"=>"processing", "value"=>"<p> Compiled by <span class=\"name\">Archives Unit</span>, <span class=\"date\">2016</span></p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"Digitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation."}
- sponsor
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{"value"=>"\nDigitization was made possible by a lead gift from The Polonsky Foundation.\n"}
- dsc_type
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combined
- date_start
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1675
- keydate
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1675
- date_end
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1846
- date_inclusive_start
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1675
- date_inclusive_end
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1846
- extent_statement
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.84 linear feet (2 boxes, 2 volumes, 1 other item)