- unitid
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{"value"=>"275520", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 1170", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Apr. 16, 1797", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1797-04-16"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to John Sevier, Governor of Tennessee"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S., Benjamin Hawkins; signed also by Andrew Pickens. Endorsed. 3 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"In reply to his letter of Apr. 13, handed them by Mr. Cowan, they inform him that the Indians are inclined more peaceably than ever before; that they withhold from him no information whereby the citizens can be injured in any way; a few Indians had been invited to meet there for ends beneficial to the U.S.; that they, Benjamin Hawkins, Andrew Pickens, and James Winchester, had been appointed Commissioners to mark the boundary lines between the Indians and the U. S."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"United States. Indian Commissioners", "type"=>"corpname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1797
- date_inclusive_end
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1797
- keydate
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1797-04-16
- date_start
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1797-04-16
- date_end
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1797-04-16