- unitid
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{"value"=>"280034", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 20125", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Apr. 30, 1829", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1829-04-30"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Andrew Jackson, President of the United States"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"L. S. Endorsed. 2 pp. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Is 86 years old and has little more time on earth; served his country faithfully during the whole Revolutionary war, part of the time with the hero Paul Jones, as his first lieutenant; commanded a marine battery during the siege of Charleston, where he lost his left eye by a bursting shell; has never asked for a pension; the lives of his three sons, all officers, were given to their country during the late war [1812]; the youngest with Captain Blakeley in the Wasp, and was voted a sword by Congress for his conduct at the capture of the Reindeer; asks the President to appoint his son-in-law [John Henry] Sherburne as Surveyor and Inspector of Customs at Portsmouth."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Hall, Elijah (Portsmouth, N.H.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1829
- date_inclusive_end
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1829
- keydate
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1829-04-30
- date_start
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1829-04-30
- date_end
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1829-04-30