- unitid
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{"value"=>"278261", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 7756", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Mar. 1, 1754", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1754-03-01"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to [Gov. James De Lancey, New York.]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"L. S. 2 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Assembly having voted 10,000 for the expedition to the Ohio, he has ordered six companies to be raised immediately, to meet at Alexandria and march by the end of the month; his orders to the commanding officer are to erect a fort on the Forks of Monongahela; encloses a letter from the Earl of Holderness directing De Lancey to send two companies here; the roads will have been well opened by the Virginia forces, and he will provide transportation for their provisions; he wishes that a feint towards Canada might be made by New York and New England; as the French forces march past Oswego he desires information from the commander of that post."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Dinwiddie, Robert (Williamsburg, Va.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1754
- date_inclusive_end
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1754
- keydate
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1754-03-01
- date_start
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1754-03-01
- date_end
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1754-03-01