District of Columbia, to wit:

     Be it remembered, That on this tenth day of November, Anno Domini,
eighteen hundred and thirty-one, Thomas R. Gray of the said District, deposited
in this office the title of a book, which is in the words as following:

     “The Confessions of Nat Turner, the leader of the late insurrection in
Southampton, Virginia, as fully and voluntarily made to Thomas R. Gray, in
the prison where he was confined, and acknowledged by him to be such when
read before the Court of Southampton; with the certificate, under seal, of the
Court convened at Jerusalem, November 5, 1831, for his trial. Also, an authentic
account of the whole insurrection, with lists of the whites who were
murdered, and of the negroes brought before the Court of Southampton, and
there sentenced, &c.” the right whereof he claims as proprietor, in conformity
with an Act of Congress, entitled “An act to amend the several acts respecting
Copy Rights.”

​                                        (Seal.)           

​EDMUND J. LEE, Clerk of the District.
In testimony that the above is a true copy,
from the record of the District Court for
the District of Columbia, I, Edmund I.
Lee, the Clerk thereof, have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of my
office, this 10th day of November, 1831.
Edmund J. Lee, C.D.C.

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