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{"value"=>"279707", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 15503", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
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{"value"=>"Feb. 24, 1781", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1781-02-24"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Sir Henry Clinton [New York]"}
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{"value"=>"Transcript of L. S. 3 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Transmits copy of Lord Rawdon's letter of Feb. 15 as latest account of Cornwallis' army; heard the day before of investment of Congaree by 800 men under Col. [Thomas] Sumpter; Lord Rawdon moving to its relief; regrets to report the surprise [by Major Postell] and surrender of Capt. [Abraham] De Peyster and 25 men of Fanning's Regiment on Feb. 21 a few miles from Georgetown; reports the receipt of a letter from Gen. [Benedict] Arnold, encloses extract and had notified Captain Barclay, senior sea officer, asking him to relieve the fleet and army on the Chesapeake and disperse the French, ships of war Chatham, Assurance, Blond, Carysfort, and Galatia at Charleston but inferior to the French so that Barclay had decided not to attack, the Chatham proceeds with convoy to New York; the Galatia's convoy waits for the presence of the Camilla also; the fleet of victuallers for New York arrived the day before and would proceed when watered; Colonel [Andrew] Bruce, Clinton's aide, on the Assurance after long passage from Cork."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Balfour, Nisbet, 1743-1823 (Charlestown, S.C.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1781
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1781
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1781-02-24
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1781-02-24
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1781-02-24