PUBLISHED BY HEZEKIAH HOWE AND DURRIE & PECK.

1828.

WASHINGTON

Published by Hezekiah Howe and Darrie & Peck, New Haven Conn.

POLITICAL AND CIVIL HISTORY

OF THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

FROM THE YEAR 1763

TO THE CLOSE OF THE ADMINISTRATION

OF PRESIDENT WASHINGTON, IN MARCH, 1797:

INCLUDING

A SUMMARY VIEW OF THE

POLITICAL AND CIVIL STATE

OF THE

NORTH AMERICAN COLONIES, PRIOR TO THAT PERIOD.

BY TIMOTHY PITKIN.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

NEW HAVEN:

PUBLISHED BY HEZEKIAH HOWE AND DURRIE & PECK.

1828.

THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY

JUN 7 1912

ANDOVER

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

A 63,330

DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, to wit:

L. S. Be it remembered, That on the twenty-third day of January, in the fifty-
second year of the Independence of the United States of America, A. Ď.
1828, TIMOTHY PITKIN, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office the Title
of a Book, the right whereof he claims as author; in the words following-to wit:

"A Political and Civil History of the United States of America, from the year 1763
to the close of the administration of President Washington, in March, 1797: including
a summary view of the Political and Civil state of the North American Colonies, prior
to that period. By TIMOTHY PITKIN. In two volumes."

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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 the act entitled "An act supplementary to an act entitled An act for the en-
couragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the au-
thors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned,' and extend-
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other prints."
CHAS. A. INGERSOLL,
Clerk of the District of Connecticut.

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