University of Virginia Library

Be it remembered, That on the twenty-sixth day of January,
in the Fifty-fifth year of the Independence of the
United States of America, Joseph Israel, of the said District,
hath deposited in this Office, the title of a Book, the right
whereof he claims as Proprietor, in the words following, To wit:

"Chronicles of Border Warfare, or a history of the settlement, by
the whites, of North-Western Virginia: and of the Indian wars and
massacres, in that section of the State; with reflections, anecdotes,
&c.—By Alexander S. Withers, 1831," in conformity to the act of 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 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."