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{"value"=>"279821", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 15616", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
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{"value"=>"July 19, 1782", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1782-07-19"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Sir Guy Carleton [New York]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"4 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"He hourly expects the return of the fleet from Savannah; he desired Capt. Swiney to use part of the shipping for the transport of 2,000 negroes to Jamaica, in compliance with the interests of the inhabitants, and because of a threatened scarcity of provisions in Florida; he urged the immediate return of the vessels after this service, intimating the purposed evacuation of Charles Town; he desires instructions in case a similar requisition for transport to the West Indies should be made when this post is quitted; he ordered the Florida Rangers to disembark here, owing to the conditions under which they were raised; the vessels returning from St. Augustine will be held ready at this place for further orders; fifteen or twenty thousand tons of shipping will be necessary for the evacuation, and the embarkation will take four or five weeks; Lieut. Cols. Balfour and Crugar, and Capt. Barry of the 52d Regiment have leave to go to New York; he has appointed Lieut. Col. [Isaac] Allen of the New Jersey Volunteers to succeed Balfour as commandant of Charles-Town; Gen. Greene has been joined by three hundred men under Pickins, the militia have been ordered to assemble, and boats are collecting on the Ashley. Copy. Endorsed."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Leslie, Alexander, ca. 1740 1794 (Charles Town, S.C.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1782
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1782
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1782-07-19
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1782-07-19
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1782-07-19