- unitid
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{"value"=>"278160", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 7557", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Jan. 31, 1780", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1780-01-31"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to the committee corresponding with the commanding officer in the Southern Department"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"Contemporary copy of A. L. S. Endorsed. 2 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Their letter had been delivered. by Mr. Rutledge who received it at Wilmington on his return from Hick's ford; the fleet they mention has probably arrived in Georgia; prisoners taken on the vessels he has mentioned to Congress state that 140 sail with a large body of troops had come out; some say that Sir Henry Clinton is in command, and others that it is Lord Cornwallis; hopes Congress will give notice of this fleet to Count de Grasse and the Governor of the Havana; has only 1400 available men in Charleston; has sent Maj. Clarkson to solicit reinforcements from the Governor of North Carolina; the French frigates have left for France; M. Duramain could not be persuaded to stay; writes of the difficult position of the American frigates in the harbor."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810 (Charles Town, S.C.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1780
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1780
- keydate
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1780-01-31
- date_start
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1780-01-31
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1780-01-31