05202-31 5345,28 1877. April 9. LS DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, ss. BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the eleventh day of June, in the forty-seventh year of the Independence of the United States of America, NoAH WEBSTER, of the said District, hath desposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following-to wit: "Letters to a young gentleman commencing his education: to which is subjoined a brief history of the United States. By Noah Webster, Esq." 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." CHARLES A. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. A true copy of Record, examined and sealed by me, CHARLES A. INGERSOLL, Clerk of the District of Connecticut. CONTENTS. Page. Instructions respecting Moral and Political conduct- Respecting accuracy in speaking and writing the English A brief History of our Ancestors, from the earliest times exhibiting a concise view of the Japhetic set- 'tlements after the Dispersion, and the migration of General view of the character, manners and religion of our ancestors, in their, uncivilized state, A Summary History of the discovery and settlement of America-particularly of the settlement of the Eng- lish colonies-the formation of the colonial govern- |