- unitid
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{"value"=>"275908", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 2371", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Dec. 30, 1775", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1775-12-30"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to Nathaniel Coffin, Boston"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 5 pp. Fo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The success of the rebels and the British inaction makes our faces very long; the capture of the ordnance ship was a severe stroke; difficulty of getting at these pirates; the sea-ports should have been destroyed months ago; Sir Peter Parker and Cornwallis are about to sail; Clinton is to command if he can get to the south soon enough; Germain is to be a second Pitt and do wonders; expects to hear that Quebec has fallen; no accomodation possible, though Burgoyne has come home with proposals; wishes his daughter Betsey were home; his son James has been posted to the Mercury; hears that nobody takes any notice of Gov. Hutchinson; trouble with the customs officers over a consignment of money to Coffin; a great armament will sail next summer; subject of prisoners, clothing for troops, etc. Postscripts, dated Jan. 7, and 8, 1776, state that Coffin's son has just arrived and gives a dismal account of things in Boston."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Montagu, John (Widley, England)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1775
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1775
- keydate
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1775-12-30
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1775-12-30
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1775-12-30