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Northern District of
New York
Located in northeast region of U.S. Area settled by Dutch traders, 1620s; later governed by Britain, 1664–1776. Admitted to U.S. as state, 1788. Population in 1810 about 1,000,000; in 1820 about 1,400,000; in 1830 about 1,900,000; and in 1840 about 2,400,...
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, Copyright for Book of Mormon, likely Utica, Oneida County, NY, 11 June 1829; clerk’s copy; New York North District, Copyright Book, vol. 116, p. 107; printed form with manuscript additions probably in the handwriting of
Richard R. Lansing
July 1789–29 Sept. 1855. U.S. district court clerk, attorney, merchant, business executive. Born in New York. Son of Gerrit G. Lansing and Maria Antill. Resided at Utica, Oneida Co., New York, by 1812. Served as U.S. district court clerk for Northern District...
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; Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress, Washington DC.

Historical Introduction
See Historical Introduction to Copyright for Book of Mormon, 11 June 1829.
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Title Page of Book of Mormon, circa Early June 1829
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Northern District) To wit:

of
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Be it remembered, That on the eleventh day of June in the fifty third year of the Independence of the
United States of America
North American constitutional republic. Constitution ratified, 17 Sept. 1787. Population in 1805 about 6,000,000; in 1830 about 13,000,000; and in 1844 about 20,000,000. Louisiana Purchase, 1803, doubled size of U.S. Consisted of seventeen states at time ...
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, A.D. 1829 Joseph Smith Junior of the said District, hath deposited in this Office the title of a Book the right whereof he claims as author in the words following, to wit: The Book of Mormon, an account written by the hand of Mormon upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi; Wherefore it is an abridgement of the record of the
people of Nephi
A term used in the Book of Mormon to refer to the descendants and followers of Nephi, as well as those who later identified themselves as Nephites for religious reasons. According to JS and the Book of Mormon, Lehi and Sariah, Nephi’s parents, and their family...
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and also of the
Lamanites
A term used in the Book of Mormon to refer to the descendants or followers of Laman, as well as those who later identified themselves as Lamanites because they did not believe in the religious traditions of their ancestors. According to JS and the Book of...
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, which are a remnant of the
House of Israel
Members of the church and the posterity of Jacob, or Israel, in the Old Testament. The people in the Book of Mormon were described in the text as a “remnant of the house of Israel,” descended from the Israelites of the Bible. JS revelations stated that the...
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, and also to Jew &
Gentile
Those who were not members of the House of Israel. More specifically, members of the church identified gentiles as those whose lineage was not of the Jews or Lamanites (understood to be the American Indians in JS’s day). Certain prophecies indicated that ...
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written by way of commandment and also by the spirit of prophesy & of revelation, written & sealed & hid up unto the Lord, that they might not be destroyed, to come forth by the gift & power of God unto the interpretation thereof— Sealed up by the hand of Moroni & hid up unto the Lord, to come forth in due time by the way of Gentile, the interpretation thereof by the gift of God; an abridgement taken from the book of Ether: Also, which is a record of the people of Jared, which were scattered at the time the Lord confounded the language of the people, when they were building a tower to get to heaven; which is to shew into the remnant of the house of Israel how great things the Lord hath done for their fathers; & that they may know the covenants of the Lord that they are not cast off forever: and also to the convincing of the Jew & Gentile that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God, manifesting himself unto all nations. And now if there be fault, it be the mistake of men; wherefore condemn not the things of God, that ye may be found Spotless at the judgment seat of Christ. By Joseph Smith Junior, author & proprieter.——

In conformity to the act of the Congress of the
United States
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, 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 the 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.”

R[ichard] R. Lansing
July 1789–29 Sept. 1855. U.S. district court clerk, attorney, merchant, business executive. Born in New York. Son of Gerrit G. Lansing and Maria Antill. Resided at Utica, Oneida Co., New York, by 1812. Served as U.S. district court clerk for Northern District...
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Clerk of the Dist. Court of the
United States
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for the Northern District of
New York
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