- unitid
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{"value"=>"279099", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 10851", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Oct. 29, 1779", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1779-10-29"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Governor [George]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 2 pp. and 1 leaf with address and endorsement. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Clinton, Poughkeepsie [N. Y.]. The last intelligence from the South premature; transmits reliable information received from Philadelphia; intelligence from Savannah up to Sept. 29 informed Remsen that the Count [D'Estaing] had taken the Experiment, Captain Sir James Wallace, 50 guns, with dispatches, Gen. Vaughan and 20 other officers bound to Georgia from New York; also a sloop of war with £30,000 to pay the troops; it was said the Fowey and Ariel were taken and all the transports; said that Sir James Wallace was so drunk that he did not destroy the dispatches, orders, and code of signals; failure of an expedition to capture Gov. Livingston; Col. Simcoe killed or taken."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Remsen, Henry (Morristown, N.J.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1779
- date_inclusive_end
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1779
- keydate
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1779-10-29
- date_start
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1779-10-29
- date_end
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1779-10-29