- unitid
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{"value"=>"83", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"MssCol 83", "type"=>"local_call"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1777-1790", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1777/1790"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"American loyalists collection"}
- physdesc
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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"18 linear feet (74 v"}, {"name"=>"dimensions", "value"=>"36 cm.)"}], "supress_display"=>true}
{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"25 microfilm reels"}], "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"=>"Collection consists of transcripts and digests from the Audit Office records in the Public Record Office in London and from the Royal Institution of Great Britain of the books and papers of the Commission of Enquiry into the losses and services of American loyalists between 1783 and 1790. Volumes contain information conveyed to the commissioners to prevent imposition and fraud; examinations and decisions on temporary support claims; calendars of original memorials, vouchers, etc.; and minutes of the commissioners in London and in Nova Scotia. Also, the Commission's reports; claims liquidated; acts of Parliament establishing and regulating the Commission; examinations and determinations of claimants in Nova Scotia and London; and Royal Institution transcripts of memorials, correspondence, accounts, returns, paylists, etc., 1778-1783. The transcripts were made between 1898 and 1903 for the New York Public Library."}
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Materials in English"}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p>American loyalists collection, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library</p>"}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p>Entire collection available on microfilm; New York Public Library; *ZL-452</p>"}
- date_start
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1777
- keydate
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1777
- date_end
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1790
- date_inclusive_start
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1777
- date_inclusive_end
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1790
- extent_statement
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18 linear feet (74 v; 25 microfilm reels
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The American loyalists collection is arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/83#c1373033'>I. Audit Office Records</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1783-1790</div>\n</li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mss/83#c1373119'>II. Royal Institution Records</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1777-1783</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Memorials, Correspondence, etc.</p> <p>8 volumes - Vols #67-74 of this collection. Each volume has a separate table of contents. The index in volume 72 is a brief alphabetical list.</p> <p>Transcript of various Papers Relating to the Losses, Services and Support of the American Loyalists and to His Majesty's Provincial Forces during the War of American Independence, preserved amongst the American Manuscripts in the Royal Institution of Great Britain, London, 1777-1783.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}