DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit. BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the eleventh day of Feb ruary, in the thirtieth year of the independence of the United States of America, MERCY WARREN, of the faid diftrict, hath depofited in this office the title of a Book, the right whereof fhe claims as author, in the words following, to wit:-"HISTORY of the Rife, Progress and "Termination of the AMERICAN REVOLUTION. Interfperfed with Biographical, Political and Moral Obfervations. In Three Volumes. 'By Mrs. MERCY WARREN, of Plymouth, (Maff.)" In conformity to the act of the congrefs of the United States, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning, by fecuring the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of fuch copies, during the times therein mentioned ;" and alfo to an act, entitled, "An act fupplementary to an act, entitled, 'An act for the encourage"ment of learning, by fecuring the copies of maps, charts, and books, to "the authors and proprietors of fuch copies, during the times therein "mentioned;' and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of defigning, " engraving, and etching historical and other prints." N. GOODALE, Clerk of the District of Maffachusetts. A true Copy of Record. Atteft: N. GOODALE, Clerk. AN ADDRESS TO THE INHABITANTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. Ат a period when every manly arm was occupied, and every trait of talent or activity engaged, either in the cabinet or the field, apprehensive, that amidst the fudden convulfions, crowded scenes, and rapid changes, that flowed in quick fucceffion, many circumftances might efcape the more busy and active members of fociety, I have been induced to improve the leisure Providence had lent, to record as they paffed, in the following pages, the new and unexperienced events exhibited in a land previously bleffed with peace, liberty, fimplicity, and virtue. As circumftances were collected, facts related, and characters drawn, many years antecedent to any history fince published, relative to the difinemberment of the colonies, and to American independence, there are few allufions to any later writers. Connected by nature, friendship, and every focial tie, with many of the first patriots, and most influential characters on the continent; in the habits of confidential and epiftolary intercourfe with feveral gentlemen employed abroad in the moft diftinguished stations, and with others fince elevated to the highest grades of rank |