- unitid
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{"value"=>"279925", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 20015", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Oct. 5, 1777", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1777-10-05"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Mrs. [Elias] Boudinot, Baskinridge [N. J.]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. Endorsed. 3 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Details the American attack on Germantown; their troops behaved nobly, marching 40 miles and fighting a battle within 24 hours; one of their frigates has taken 4 Jamaica men [ships] out of 5, one of them a 20-gun ship; in a postscript, has just seen the General who cannot account for the failure to hold Germantown; he has confidence that America will yet be free, but the time has not yet come."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821 (29 miles from Philadelphia, Pa.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
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1777
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1777
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1777-10-05
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1777-10-05
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1777-10-05