- unitid
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{"value"=>"279794", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 15589", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"May 27, 1782", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1782-05-27"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to James Robertson, General and Commander-in-chief [New York]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"2 pp. and 1 leaf with indorsement. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Transmits papers showing the steps taken by himself in consequence of a dispatch from Sir Henry Clinton containing the resolutions of the House of Commons and their address to His Majesty; motives of commiseration and expedience led him to communicate with Gen. Greene on the subject, without previous directions from headquarters, as the enemy are carrying out their confiscation acts by selling the estates of loyalists, and he hopes that he may suspend these proceedings by the measure he has taken. Copy."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Leslie, Alexander, ca. 1740 1794 (Charles Town, S.C.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1782
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1782
- keydate
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1782-05-27
- date_start
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1782-05-27
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1782-05-27