DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, TO WIT:
District Clerk's Office.
BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the fourteenth day of January,
A. D. 1813, and in the thirty-seventh year of the Independence of the
United States of America, Susanna Rowson, of the said District, has
deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof she
claims as author, in the words following, to wit:
“Sarah, or the Exemplary Wife. By Susanna Rowson, author of
Charlotte Temple, Rauben and Rachel, Fille de Chambre, &c. &c. Do
not marry a fool; he is continually doing absurd and disagreeable
things, for no other reason but to shew he dares do them. Gregory's
Legacy. Remember that nothing but strict truth can carry you through
life with honor and credit.”
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled,
“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
intitled, “An Act supplementary to an act, intitled, 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.”
WM.S.SHAW, Clerk of the District
of Massachusetts.
