- unitid
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{"value"=>"275559", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 1250", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"July 1, 1775", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1775-07-01"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to [W. H. Drayton, Arthur Middleton, and C. C. Pinckney, Members of the Secret Committee, Charleston, S. C.]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"L. S., Henry Middleton, Thomas Lynch, Christopher Gadsden, John Rutledge, Edward Rutledge. 2 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Delegates of South Carolina send a vessel for gun-powder; all salt petre should be sent to Philadelphia to be used there for powder; if more than 4,000 lbs be collected, the surplus is to be sent at another opportunity; they send ... bushels of Indian corn to be exchanged for rice in which the powder may be concealed; secrecy recommended; suggested that large stores of powder may be procured from Havana."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"United States. Congress, Continental, 1775–1789", "type"=>"corpname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1775
- date_inclusive_end
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1775
- keydate
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1775-07-01
- date_start
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1775-07-01
- date_end
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1775-07-01