Letter to Elisha Boudinot

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{"value"=>"275307", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 746", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"Mar. 15, 1778", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1778-03-15"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Letter to Elisha Boudinot"}
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. 1 page. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Has written him a few days earlier, asking him to procure one of Gaine's newspapers containing an advertisement for the sale of counterfeit money by the ream [The New-York Gazette and the Weekly Mercury, April 14, 1777, no. 1329]; also wants some affidavits of the treatment of their prisoners in New York during the winter of 1776-77; he has accepted the place of one of the commissioners for settling the treaty of exchange of prisoners between the United States and General Howe, to sit on the 31st, at Germantown; there has been nothing but suffering for the army, but they do it without complaint; it has been terrible weather for naked soldiers; 3,000 are down with smallpox; not one has been lost by inoculation."}
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{"value"=>"Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821 (Camp Valley Forge)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1778
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1778
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1778-03-15
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1778-03-15
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1778-03-15

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