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Sample registrations, various states (1790-1800)

Source: Library of Congress, Rare Books and Special Collections: Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts records; National Archives, Atlanta Facility: North Carolina records; National Archives, Northeast Facility: Vermont records.

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Sample registrations, various states (1790-1800), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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№. 1.

District of Pennsylvania, to wit:
      Be it remembered, that on the ninth day of
June, in the fourteenth year of the independence of
the United States of America, John Barry, of the said
District, hath deposited in this office, the title of a book,
the right whereof he claims as author, in the words follow-
ing, to wit: "The Philadelphia Spelling Book,
arranged upon a plan entirely new, adapted to the ca-
pacities of children, and designed as an immediate
improvement in spelling and reading the English
Language. The whole being recommended by several
eminent teachers, as the most useful performance
to expedite the instruction of youth.      By John
Barry, Master of the Free School of the Protes-
tant Episcopal Church." in conformity to the 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 men-
tioned."

                                                Sam Caldwell Clerk of the
                                                District of Pennsylvania
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№. 2.

District of Pennsylvania, to wit:
      Be it remembered, that on the fifteenth day
of June on the fourteenth year of the independence of of
the United States of America, Thomas Wignell of
the said District, hath deposited in this Office, this Title

    

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