Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter: A Native of Cranston, Rhode-Island; Who Was a Soldier in the American Revolution (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R. Potter: A Native of Cranston, Rhode-Island; Who Was a Soldier in the American Revolution
District of Rhobe Island to wit:
Be It Remembered That on the thirtieth day of January one Thousand eight hundred and twenty four and in the forty eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America, HENRY TRUMBULL, of said District, deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof he claims as author, in the following words, to wit: – “Life and Remarkable Adventures of Israel R Potter, a native of Cranston Rhode Island – who was a soldier in the American Revolution, and took a distinguished part in the battle of Bunker Hill (in which he received three wounds) after which he was taken Prisoner by the British, and conveyed to England where for thirty years he attained a livelihood for himself and family by crying “old Chairs to mend” through the Streets of London – In May last by the assistance of the American Consul he succeeded in (the 79th year of his age) in obtaining a passage to his native Country after an absence of 48 years.”
In conformity to an Act of Congress 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 time there in mentioned” and also to an act entitled “An Act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps charts, and book, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned, and extending the benefit thereof to the Art of designing, engraving, and etching, historical, and other prints.”
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