- unitid
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{"value"=>"277593", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 6466", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Oct. 15, 1779", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1779-10-15"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Gen. [Benjamin] Lincoln"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 2 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"According to a promise that he should have the preference of exchanging any of those whom he made prisoners, he took with him Thomas Dickinson, a sea-faring man who has been a prisoner since Jan. 9th, for whom he hopes that Capt. George Baker Gibbs, a prisoner here, may be exchanged; should the General disapprove of this, he will cause Dickinson to be returned to Sunbury or some other British post."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Spencer, Samuel (Sunbury, Ga.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1779
- date_inclusive_end
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1779
- keydate
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1779-10-15
- date_start
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1779-10-15
- date_end
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1779-10-15