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{"value"=>"276043", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 2862", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
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{"value"=>"Feb. 8, 1777", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1777-02-08"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to John Hart, Speaker of the Assembly, Now Sitting in Haddonsfield, New Jersey"}
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 2 pp. and 1 leaf with the address and endorsement. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The four New England colonies have had a meeting of committees from their legislatures to regulate trade; their proceedings are now before Congress, which will recommend the other states to do likewise; he is much alarmed with Gen. Washington's proclamation of Jan. 25th; the General has assumed the legislative and executive powers of government in all the states; Clark has moved therefore that Congress pass a resolution for preventing such fatal consequences and the establishment of such a precedent; whatever the issue in Congress, he hopes that the Legislature will not tamely submit to a power unknown in their constitution; a regulation for providing carriages for the army, to prevent impressment of them, has long been before Congress; the Legislature ought to pass a law regulating such impressment; [Jonathan D.] Sergeant talks of resigning, and [Richard] Stockton cannot act; forces are marching against the Tories in Maryland; Congress will soon remove to Lancaster, partly because of the extravagant price of living here."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Clark, Abraham (Baltimore)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1777
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1777
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1777-02-08
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1777-02-08
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1777-02-08