PRIMARY SOURCES

ON COPYRIGHT

(1450-1900)

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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DISTRICT OF MAINE - TO WIT:

                                                                                                DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE

      BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the fourteenth day of August A.D. 1790
and in the fifteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America,
Samuel Freeman of said District, has deposited in this office, the title of a
book, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following, to wit:

"The Columbian Primer, or the School Mistresses Guide to Children in their
first steps: Learning. Part I. Containing words of one & two syllables.
With an Appendix, containing Sundry Matters which Children may be taught
to say by Heart. By Samuel Freeman, Esquire."


      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."

                                                                                                H. Sewall, Clerk of the District of Maine.
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DISTRICT OF MAINE - TO WIT:

                                                                                                DISTRICT CLERK'S OFFICE

      BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the sixth day of December A.D. 1791
and in the sixteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America,
Rev. Elijah Kellogg of said District, has deposited in this office, the title of a
book, the right whereof he claims as proprietor in the words following, to wit:

"A Discourse to Children. By the Reverend Moses Hemmenway, D.D."

      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."

                                                                                                H. Sewall, Clerk of the District of Maine.

    


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