- unitid
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{"value"=>"275503", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 1135", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Jan. 26, 1776", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1776-01-26"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to George Washington, Cambridge [Mass.]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 1 page. 4o", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Has been trying to collect the journal and ordinances of the last state convention, to send him, but Purdie is backward in publishing them; a skirmish, Sunday, was favorable; the Colony's armed vessels serve to check Lord Dunmore's tenders; Mr. Custis's tenement has been burned, through carelessness of soldiers quartered there; thinks the country should be answerable for it; the convention has established a court of admiralty, and has recommended free trade to Congress."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Randolph, Edmund, 1753-1813 (Williamsburg, Va.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1776
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1776
- keydate
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1776-01-26
- date_start
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1776-01-26
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1776-01-26