- unitid
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{"value"=>"275169", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 486", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"July 12, 1778", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1778-07-12"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to --"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S., \"W. W.\" 4 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Was not surprised to hear of the evacuation of Philadelphia; satisfaction with the firm conduct of Congress; rumor of a battle on June 28; he would wish to discourage privateering; it injures the regular service, and corrupts the people; it takes all the men; farmers must pay $30 or $40 per month for a laborer, or, near Portsmouth, $3 or $4 a day; this raises price of provisions, Indian Corn costing $6 a bushel; in some towns in New Hampshire the bounty for three or four months service in Rhode Island has been forced up to $400, exclusive of the grant from the State; the seamen are gone, most of them in Halifax jail; the navy is drained of officers and men."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Whipple, William (Portsmouth, N.H.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1778
- date_inclusive_end
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1778
- keydate
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1778-07-12
- date_start
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1778-07-12
- date_end
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1778-07-12