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{"value"=>"279833", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 15628", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Aug. 10, 1782", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1782-08-10"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Sir Guy Carleton [New York]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"3 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"He finds that the shipping required will exceed his former computation; he permitted the British merchants settled here to send a deputation to learn what terms would be granted them by the enemy; Gen. Greene's answer will determine the greater number, but many will remove with the troops; the number of refugees will be great; negroes who voluntarily came in cannot be abandoned to the resentment of their former masters; he will appoint proper officers for them and send them to Florida or Jamaica, where they may still be useful to the Government; he has been compelled to send out an armed party to collect rice, securing 600 barrels; but as the old inhabitants of Florida had scarcely a sufficiency he must again have recourse to this expedient, unless Gen. Greene shall think fit to afford a supply on terms less repugnant to the present principles of government. 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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1782-08-10
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1782-08-10
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1782-08-10