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{"value"=>"275196", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 547", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
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{"value"=>"Oct. 20, 1796", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1796-10-20"}
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{"value"=>"Letter to Dr. [William?] Smith, [Provost of the college of Philadelphia?]"}
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. 11 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Thanking him for his letters on the subject of the north-eastern boundary; Sullivan had addressed him at the suggestion of Mr. [William?] Bingham; both letters maintain that the Schoodiac is the river intended by the treaty of 1783 as the St. Croix; in this he is mistaken; even if the piece of paper were pasted on Mitchell's map (of which fact the commissioners of 1783 have no recollection) that addition would still make the Magaguadavic the St. Croix; all maps, of Passamaquoddy Bay before 1787 call the easternmost of the two rivers emptying into it the St. Croix; Smith makes a mistake in his calculations from Lescarbot as to the position of De Monts's island; Sullivan is right in his statement that Bernard's survey was made in 1764, from Apr. 14 to June 30; Gov. Hutchinson's survey in 1770, under Gen. Brattle and Col. Royall, decided on the same river; so too that of Generals Lincoln and Knox in 1784; this statement is further supported by oaths of Indians; Charles Morris now acknowledges that his survey which gave the Cobscook as the St. Croix was erroneous; under the charter granted to Massachusetts by William and Mary grants of land have been made between the Kennebec and the St. Croix; all grants from the Crown before the Revolution, both within Nova Scotia and without, are vacated by an act of government; the limits of the ancient Acadia do not enter into the question; the English have made their claim to Nova Scotia on the grant to Sir William Alexander; they do not pretend, with Shirley and Mildway, that it ever extended west of the Schoodiac; nor does the Act of 1774 come into the question."}
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{"value"=>"Sullivan, James (Boston, Mass.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1796
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1796
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1796-10-20
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1796-10-20
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1796-10-20