Dedication
TO
THE HONOURABLE WILLIAM TUDOR;
SOME OF WHICH WERE NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED.
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT,
District Clerk’s Office.
Be It Remembered, That on the thirtieth day of March, A. D. 1819, and of the Forty-fourth Year of the Independence of the United States of America, HEWS & GOSS, 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:—“Novanglus and Massachusettensis; or Political Essays, published in the years 1774 and 1775, on the principal points of controversy, between Great Britain and her colonies. The former by John Adams, late President of the United States; the latter by Jonathan Sewall, then king’s Attorney General of the Province of Massachusetts Bay. To which are added a number of letters, lately written by President Adams, to the Hon. William Tudor; some of which were never before published.”
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.