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{"value"=>"EM. 4369", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
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{"value"=>"Aug. 31, 1784", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1784-08-31"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Horatio Gates, Traveller's Rest, Berkley Co., Va."}
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. 2 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"On his return from Mount Vernon he had hoped to see Gates, but found on reaching New York that the latter had gone back to Traveller's Rest; he reached Gen. Washington's on June 2; on reading the resolve of Congress, the General said that he would keep no papers back, but would trust to Gordon's prudence in making use of them; until the 19th Gordon worked hard every day, and examined thirty-three volumes of copied letters of the General's, three volumes of private letters, two of general orders, and bundles upon bundles of letters to him; the knowledge gained is ample compensation; he reminds Gates of a promise to give him the Convention paper, signed by Burgoyne; he expects papers from Gen. Otho Williams on the southern operations, which will tend to exculpate Gates, and throw light on some subtle manœuvres of [William] Smallwood in getting thanks to which he was not entitled."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Gordon, William (Jamaica Plain, Mass.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1784
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1784
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1784-08-31
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1784-08-31
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1784-08-31