PUBLIC LIBRARY 583175 400, LENOX AND 15.2 DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit: DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twelfth day of August, A. D. 1822, in the fortyseventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, Richardson & Lord, of the said District, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: 66 History of Massachusetts, from 1764, to July, 1775: When General Washington took command of the American army. By Alden Bradford, Secretary of the Commonwealth." In conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned:" and also to an Act entitled, " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, An Act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the Benefits thereof to the Arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching Historical and other Prints." JOHN W. DAVIS, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts. MEM AOKK TO THE PEOPLE OF MASSACHUSETTS, This Wolume, EXHIBITING THE PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL LIBERTY, ASSERTED BY THEIR INTELLIGENT AND BRAVE PREDECESSORS, AND TO THE RECOGNITION AND INFLUENCE OF WHICH THEY ARE INDEBTED, UNDER PROVIDENCE, FOR THEIR PRESENT MOST FREE AND HAPPY FORM OF CIVIL GOVERNMENT, IS HUMBLY AND RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, NA BY THE AUTHOR. |