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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
- 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:
- 117
- Subject:
- SECRET CORRESPONDENCE
- Abstract:
- Charles W.F. Cipher. Undated. 2 p.
- Roll Number:
- 72
- Original data from:
The National Archives
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A cipher table used by Dumas and Franklin. Symbols including twenty-five letters of the alphabet plus the amersand, the apostrophe, the comma, the interrogation, the full stop, the division or hyphen, and the asterisk are each assigned one to 129 (for e) numbers. There are a total of 682 numbers. When the symbols are arranged in the order of the number, they make a passage in French: "Voulez-vous sentir la difference? Jettez les yeux ...", from which this cipher was derived. Thus, each symbol has as many homophones as proportional to the frequency in French, with no number assigned to W. While this table shows numbers 684-694 for W, these are struck out with a note "make use of two vs". Letters in this cipher include Page 142 of the present roll (Roll 72) and Page 100 of Roll 121.