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{"value"=>"275662", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 1538", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Aug. 22, 1813", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1813-08-22"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to [T. M. Rodney? Wilmington, Del.?]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. in possession of T. M. Rodney. With a view of McKean's residence in Philadelphia, described already as EM. 212. 3 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Acknowledges receipt of copy of Journal of the Congress of 1765 printed in Niles's Register; he had had part of the proceedings reprinted from volume 1 of Almon's American Tracts; describes the voting on the Declaration of Independence; his sending for Caesar Rodney whose arrival changed the vote of Delaware; signing of the document; resolution in the secret Journal that no one should sit in Congress during that year unless he signed the declaration; his name and that of Henry Wisner omitted in the printed Journal; some signed it who were not in Congress at the time; his services in the militia and in the Delaware Convention. Lithograph fac-simile of an."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"McKean, Thomas, 1734-1817 (Philadelphia, Pa.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1813
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1813
- keydate
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1813-08-22
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1813-08-22
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1813-08-22