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{"value"=>"279399", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 13455", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
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{"value"=>"Sept. 20, 1755", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1755-09-20"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Governor [Horatio] Sharpe [Annapolis, Md.]"}
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{"value"=>"L. S. 2 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Sharpe's letter of 15th July was picked up in the street and opened; the officers in Nova Scotia will offer their services to General [William] Shirley or to their commands there; has received his letter of 2nd by express, blames Colonel Dunbar for retreating over the mountains without building a fort so as to check the French advance; Dunbar's conduct without precedent; has reported it to the [English] ministry; as to building a fort on the other side of the Allegany Mountains; has granted commissions for 16 companies, to consist of 1000 men, the command to be given to Colonel [George] Washington to protect the frontiers, learn the exercises in winter and be ready to join any forces from home in the spring; Dunbar carried coehorns not mortars; according to Lieut. John St. Clair enemy's destruction of the great guns was doubtful; thinks if Gen. Shirley succeeds [at Niagara] the forts on the Ohio would soon be theirs but fears the enemy has had time to reinforce against Shirley; Montgomery at Hampton with stores and clothing, hears that the whole English navy is in commission and that war would be declared [against France] on return of the King from his German Dominion; is ashamed to send the enclosed militia law, all he could obtain."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Dinwiddie, Robert (Williamsburgh, Va.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1755
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1755
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1755-09-20
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1755-09-20
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1755-09-20