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{"value"=>"279934", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 20024", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Oct. 21, 1781", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1781-10-21"}
- 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"=>"Expresses regret at her silence; informs her of the death of Dr. [Nathaniel] Scudder who, attending patients [Oct. 17,] met General [David] Forman [at Black's Point, Shrewsbury, N. J.,] raising minute men to drive off marauders; on approaching them the doctor was shot through the head; leaves a helpless family; his attention to politics had been prejudicial to his little estate; not to be compared with New London where 66 widows were made in one day, and one poor woman lost her husband and five sons at once; communicates particulars as to attack on Yorktown gathered from Washington's letter [to the President of Congress] of Oct 12; and in a postscript dated Monday morning, 8 o'clock, informs her of the receipt at 3 A.M. of the news of Lord Cornwallis' surrender."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Boudinot, Elias, 1740-1821 (Philadelphia, Pa.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1781
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1781
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1781-10-21
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1781-10-21
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1781-10-21