OF THE

AMERICAN REVOLUTION;

OR A

RECORD OF THE CAUSES AND EVENTS

WHICH PRODUCED, AND TERMINATED IN THE ESTABLISHMENT
AND INDEPENDENCE OF THE

AMERICAN REPUBLIC.

INTERSPERSED WITH NUMEROUS APPROPRIATE

DOCUMENTS AND ANECDOTES.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A SUMMARY ACCOUNT OF THE

FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE COUNTRY,

AND SOME OF THE PRINCIPAL

INDIAN WARS,

WHICH HAVE AT SUCCESSIVE PERIODS AFFLICTED ITS INHABITANTS.

To which is added,

REMARKS

ON THE PRINCIPLES AND COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGES OF THE

CONSTITUTION OF OUR NATIONAL GOVERNMENT:

AND AN

APPENDIX

CONTAINING A

BIOGRAPHY

OF THE

PRINCIPAL MILITARY OFFICERS,

WHO WERE INSTRUMENTAL IN ACHIEVING OUR INDEPENDENCE.

Compiled from a mass of authentic Documents, and arranged
in chronological and historical order,

BY JEDIDIAH MORSE, D. D.
Author of the American Universal Gazetteer.

HARTFORD:

US.2533,9

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JAN 22 1889

By exchange.

DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT, ss.

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the 8th day of November, in the forty-nin L. S. year of the independence of the United States of America, OLIVER D. COOK & Sons, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a Boo

the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit:

"Annals of the American Revolution; or a record of the causes and events whic produced, and terminated in the establishment and independence of the America Republic. Interspersed with numerous appropriate documents and anecdotes, which is prefixed a summary account of the first settlement of the country, and som of the principal Indian Wars, which have at successive periods afflicted its inhabitant To which is added, remarks on the principles and comparative advantages of the cor stitution of our national government: and an appendix; containing a biography the principal military officers, who were instrumental in achieving our independence Compiled from a mass of authentic Documents, and arranged in chronological and his torical order, by Jedidiah Morse, D. D. author of the American Universal Gazetteer In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An act fo the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts and Books t 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.