- unitid
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{"value"=>"278497", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 8738", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"June 28, 1782", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1782-06-28"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to the President of Congress"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"4 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"A letter from the commissary of prisoners, a copy of which is subjoined, requests permission for a boat to fish on the banks near Sandy Hook for the benefit of the marine prisoners in New York, and transmits a request of the British commissary that he may be permitted to purchase wood within the American lines for the use of the prisoners; there is little probability of their being exchanged soon, and their situation is distressful. Contemporary copy. Endorsed."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Lincoln, Benjamin, 1733-1810 (Philadelphia, Pa.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1782
- date_inclusive_end
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1782
- keydate
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1782-06-28
- date_start
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1782-06-28
- date_end
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1782-06-28