DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:

District Clerk's Office. Be it remembered, that on the second day of January, A. D. 1829, and in the fiftythird year of the Independence of the United States of America, ABIEL HOLMES, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the words following, viz.

“ The Annals of America, from the discovery by Columbus in the year 1492, to the year 1826. By ABIEL HOLMES, D. D. Minister of the First Church in Cambridge ; Corresponding Secretary of the Massachusetts Historical Society. - suum quæ que in annum referre. Tacitus.”

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."

JNO. W. DAVIS.
Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.

CAMBRIDGE:
HILLIARD, METCALF, AND COMPANY.

From the Settlement of Georgia, in 1732, to the Peace of Paris,

in 1763.

PERIOD VI.

From the Peace of Paris, in 1763, to the Declaration of Inde

pendence, in 1776.

Part III.-THE UNITED

STATES OF AMERICA.

From the Declaration of Independence, in 1776, to the Federal

Government, in 1789.
From the Commencement of the Federal Government, in 1789,

to the Completion of the Fiftieth Year of the Independence
of the United States, in 1826.

To be added to the Catalogue of Authors.

Lond. 1763,

The History of America, in Universal History, xxxviii-xli. 8vo.

1764. Wynne's General History of the British Empire in America. 8vo. 2 vols. Lond.

1770.

N. B. Next page, read PERIOD V.