- unitid
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{"value"=>"278382", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 8275", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Oct. 28, 1784", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1784-10-28"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Horatio Gates, Baltimore"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. 3 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Col. Pickering, the quartermaster general, is not able to pay Gates's claim for forage due to him, because the grants of money by the states were made only for service in the years 1782 to 1784; this and other claims of Gates on the United States must remain unsatisfied until the states are wise enough to know the value of public confidence, and honest enough to acquire it by discharging their engagements; Congress means well, but narrow-minded men in the legislatures deprive it of power; the federal government must be strengthened if they are to retain a national character; he will send in his commission when Congress meets, and will then have the happiness of finding himself a private man."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Morris, Robert Hunter, ca. 1700-1764 (Philadelphia, Pa.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1784
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1784
- keydate
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1784-10-28
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1784-10-28
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1784-10-28