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{"value"=>"275190", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 532", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Jan. 1, 1783", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1783-01-01"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Major General Benjamin Lincoln"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. 3 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The deputation [of Massachusetts in Congress] set off for Rhode Island but were soon recalled [to Philadelphia] because Virginia had repealed her act for an impost; it cost him $200 to prepare for the journey; the Secretary of Massachusetts has sent him an account of his draughts with a caution not to make them too frequent; the prospect of peace is better; the arrangement of the New Hampshire, Rhode Island and New Jersey lines is postponed to the first of March; Congress has done another wrong to Baron Steuben, having repealed all former allowances of extra pay, subsistence, forage, etc. and given him instead $300 per month; illness of [Nathaniel] Gorham and \"Mr. Lovell\" [John Lowell?]."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Osgood, Samuel (Philadelphia, Pa.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1783
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1783
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1783-01-01
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1783-01-01
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1783-01-01