- unitid
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{"value"=>"275676", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 1564", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"April 9, 1777", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1777-04-09"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Gov. Jonathan Trumbull, of Connecticut"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 2 pp. and 1 leaf with address and endorsement. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Has advanced $750 on account of the State to Capt. Niles of the Spy, who is unable to take his cargo to Virginia because of the war-ships in Chesapeake Bay; the Articles of Confederation are to be taken up next Monday; Congress has received a letter from Dr. Franklin, Arthur Lee and Silas Deane; they have been offered a loan of 2,000,000 livres; Mr. [William] Duer says that Governor Franklin has been busy with the tories and has delivered a number of protections from Gen. Howe; the people of the New Hampshire Grants have petitioned to be recognized as an independent state; the New York Convention has protested; difficulty of recruiting; the convention of committees for the middle states has broken up without doing anything to remedy high prices."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Sherman, Roger (Philadelphia, Pa.)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1777
- date_inclusive_end
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1777
- keydate
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1777-04-09
- date_start
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1777-04-09
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1777-04-09