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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:
- 142
- Roll Number:
- 72
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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"