Read an Excerpt
U'kstehx District Of Virginia, to wit: 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, 4c.—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 tho times therein mentioned, and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of Designing, Engraving and Etching historical and other prints." JASPER YEATES DODDRIDGE, Clerk of the Western District of Virginia. (xiv) ADVERTISEMENT. The " Chronicles of Border Warfare" are now completed and presented to the public. Circumstauces, over which the publisher had no control, have operated to delay their appearance beyond the anticipated period; and an apprehension that such might be the case, induced him, when issuing proposals for their publication, not positively to name a time at which the work would be completed and ready for delivery. This delay, although unavoidable, has been the sourceof regret to the publisher, and has added considerably to the expenditure otherwise necessarily m...
