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{"value"=>"278378", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 8258", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Feb. 23, 1787", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1787-02-23"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to [Horatio Gates.]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. 2 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"He had expected that the present secretary would have sent him copies of their proceedings at the last meeting of the Society [of the Cincinnati] in Richmond; their business was retarded for want of Gates's communication respecting the scheme of locating their Continental bounty of lands; in consequence of Washington's declining the presidency, and Gates's mission to preside at the general meeting in May, it was thought hest to choose another state president; Weedon was elected; their delegates, Grayson, Carrington, and Col. Wallace are instructed to urge that Washington continue at their head, freed from all laborious duties, except signing diplomas; the interest of their fund is appropriated to educating the children of deceased brother-soldiers; regrets to hear of Gates's indisposition; his friends ascribed his non-attendance to matrimony."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Weedon, George (Sentry Box, Va.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1787
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1787
- keydate
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1787-02-23
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1787-02-23
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1787-02-23