John Williams

“First purify the heart, then light the mind
With pure Religion’s lamp, so shalt thou blessings find.”
BOSTON, BOWLES AND DEARBORN, 72 WASHINGTON STREET.
Isaac R. Butts & Co. Printers. 1827.
DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS, to wit :
District Clerk’s Office .
Be it remembered, that on the twenty-third day of March, A. D. 1827, in the fifty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Bowles & Dearborn of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit :
“John Williams, or the Sailor Boy.
“‘First purify the heart, then light the mind,
With pure Religion’s lamp, so shalt thou blessings find.’”
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;” and also to an act entitled “An act supplementary 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 the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving and etching historical and other prints.”
JNO. W. DAVIS, } Clerk of the District } of Massachusetts .