- unitid
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{"value"=>"279163", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 11107", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"May 29, 1794", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1794-05-29"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Col. Benjamin Walker, New York"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 2 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Explanations as to the protest of a bill drawn by L'Enfant for money due to him from the Society [of the Cincinnati]; demands its payment; his engagement about the defences of the Delaware would detain him longer than he had imagined; refers to his needs and describes his treatment as one giving up his purse to highway robbery; the thermometer being the same in New York has no news but at last ça ira -- ça ira; the French privateer has brought to the Dutch lugger in mistake for a Spanish cabion, they both lay together at anchor -- short of ammunition, trying to sell the ballast stone of the province of main (sic) to gather provision and cruise again."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"L'Enfant, Pierre Charles (Philadelphia, Pa.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1794
- date_inclusive_end
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1794
- keydate
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1794-05-29
- date_start
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1794-05-29
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1794-05-29