- unitid
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{"value"=>"278288", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 7914", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Nov. 13, 1772", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1772-11-13"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to William Gordon, Roxbury [Mass.]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. 1 page. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Thanks him for an extract from a London letter respecting [Henry] Marchant; he has lately read [Richard] Price's book on the principles of estimating lives and annuities, comparing with it Gordon's piece on the same subject; to adapt Gordon's scheme to New England, it would be expedient to procure more bills of births and deaths than have yet been published, so as to form an idea of the ratio of life and death all over the territory; points out the way in which such a society, if formed, might be used by ministers."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Stiles, Ezra (Newport, R.I.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1772
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1772
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1772-11-13
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1772-11-13
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1772-11-13