- unitid
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{"value"=>"279394", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 13411", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"June 30, 1758", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1758-06-30"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to William Denny [Philadelphia]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"L. S. 2 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Reports news from the Five Nations that 20 Onondaga Indians had been killed or captured by Englishmen to the southward; thinks the story a French invention but if true desires Denny's influence to save prisoners from death, and asks him to advise Sir William Johnson, who marched the day before to join Gen. [James] Abercromby; Croghan followed [on July 1st] with the other divisions and the Indians; expects a total of 400 [Indians], some of all the Five Nations."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Croghan, George (Fort Johnson, Johnstown, N.Y.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1758
- date_inclusive_end
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1758
- keydate
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1758-06-30
- date_start
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1758-06-30
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1758-06-30