- unitid
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{"value"=>"275344", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 815", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"June 9, 1783", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1783-06-09"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Major-General Gates [Berkeley County, Va.]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. 2 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Sends this by Mr. Nourse, together with packets from the army; troops that have not completed their service are to be stationed at West Point, Detroit, and Niagara; Gates could have no hopes for the command of these, for all is left to the Commander-in-Chief; [Charles?] Stewart promises to show, in the course of an official enquiry, some of the abominable meanness and vice long existent among the New England troops; status of the Tories in Virginia; expected arrival of the Dutch ambassador; resignation of Secretary for Foreign Affairs [R. R. Livingston]; candidates for the office; the new ministry in England; increase in British trade at Philadelphia; the British ambassador \"will shak the Knight of Malta in his seat, If he be the clever fellow they should & (I suppose) can send;\" offers of Maryland and of New York for the seat of government."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Armstrong, John (Philadelphia, Pa.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1783
- date_inclusive_end
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1783
- keydate
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1783-06-09
- date_start
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1783-06-09
- date_end
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1783-06-09