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Official records of the original colonies and the early United States. The First Continental Congress (1774) addressed "intolerable acts" by the British. The Second Continental Congress (1775-1781) created the Declaration of Independence and the first national government. The Congress of the Confederation (1781-1789) followed. Read important papers, letters, treaties, and reports--famous and obscure--relating to the formation of the new nation, as penned by the founding fathers.
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- Collection Title:
- Papers of the Continental Congress
- Publication Title:
- Papers of the Continental Congress
- National Archives Catalog ID:
- 1938489
- National Archives Catalog Title:
- Papers of the Continental Congress, compiled 1774 - 1789
- Record Group:
- 360
- Short Description:
- NARA M247. The correspondence, journals, committee reports, and records of the Continental Congress (1774-1789).
- Item Number:
- 59
- Publication Number:
- M247
- Item Description:
- Miscellaneous Papers, 1770-89
- Item Title:
- Miscellaneous Papers, 1770-89
- Volume Number:
- 1
- Volume Title:
- Volume 1
- Page:
- 142
- Roll Number:
- 72
- Original data from:
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STomokiyo
James Lovell's polyalphabetic substitution explained (as in Page 115). The explanation, written in Dumas' cipher (sse Page 117), reads as follows (684 and 690 seem to be nulls or baulks): "use three Columns / of regular alp- / habet placing j & / v after their vovvells. & being necessary to make up / tvventy seve- / n Several highe- / r answer for baulc- / s, if especially your other / parts for the same purpose are vvr / ong scor'd, / In your Columns my Figures have a Relation perpetually 684 al- / ternate. 690" The last paragraph in plaintext explains permutation (transposing) of the letters in a keyword COR. (COR is the keyword assigned to Benjamin Franklin. See Page 144.) The table at the lower-left reads: "1-c[o]r, 705 / 2-cro, 695 / 3-ocr, 701 / 4-orc, 691 / 5-rco, 700 / 6-roc, 690"