Letter to Benjamin Fletcher, Governor, New York

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unitid
{"value"=>"278982", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 10574", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
unitdate
{"normal"=>"1692-02-11", "value"=>"Feb. 11, 1692/3"}
unittitle
{"value"=>"Letter to Benjamin Fletcher, Governor, New York"}
physdesc
{"value"=>"L. S. 2 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Would have informed Fletcher of the approach on 8th instant of 350 French and 200 Indians to the Maquase castles; the news came from a youth taken at Schenectady 3 years ago, but news would have been too late; details his proceedings for the defence of Albany and Schenectady; has ordered in all the farmers, who readily obeyed; as a result about 600 men at Schenectady and Albany; had written to Sopus (Esopus) for any men they could spare and had expected Captain de Meyer and 50 men; etc."}
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{"value"=>"Ingoldesby, Richard (Albany, N.Y.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
date_inclusive_start
1692
date_inclusive_end
1692
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1692-02-11

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