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    <title>Forton Prison (England) prisoner of war papers, 1777-1797</title>
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    <namePart>Forton Prison (England)</namePart>
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  <originInfo>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <abstract>Journal (1777 June 15-1779 July 22) kept by an American prisoner, Thomas McKinney, with a contemporary copy of a letter (1778 September 19) from John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, and Arthur Lee to the prisoners at Forton, list of prisoners, and financial entries (1793-1797) of Reuben Locke, Lexington, Mass.; and copybook of naval prisoners' songs (1778), with list of financial expenditures.</abstract>
  <note>Open to research.</note>
  <note>Microfilm edition available, no. 16,512.</note>
  <note>Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1977.</note>
  <note>Collection material in English.</note>
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    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Adams, John</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1735-1826</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Franklin, Benjamin</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1706-1790</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Lee, Arthur</namePart>
      <namePart type="date">1740-1792</namePart>
    </name>
    <topic>Correspondence</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>Locke, Reuben</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <name type="personal">
      <namePart>McKinney, Thomas</namePart>
    </name>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Prisoners of war</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
    <topic>Prisoners and prisons</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <geographic>United States</geographic>
    <topic>History</topic>
    <temporal>Revolution, 1775-1783</temporal>
    <topic>Songs and music</topic>
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  <accessCondition type="restrictionOnAccess">Open to research.</accessCondition>
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