IN offering to the public this little volume, containing the leading features in the eventful life of a Son of the Forest, the author would in the outset bespeak for the work a favorable reception. In conformity of the Act of 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 time therein mentioned.” And also to an Act, entitled “An Act, supplementary to an Act, entitled an Act for the encouragement of the 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.”Ĭlerk of the Southern District of New-York. The Experience of William Apes, a Native of the Forest Comprising a notice of the Pequod Tribe of Indians. 1829, in the fifty third year of the Independence of the United States of America, William Apes, 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 BE IT REMEMBERED, that on the twenty-fifth day of July, A.D. Any other changes to the original 1829 edition are unintentional. A few minor and obvious spelling mistakes have been corrected. Due to formatting issues, paragraph breaks are indicated by a space between paragraphs rather than by the indentations used in the original. The original pagination is indicated by page numbers in bold brackets at the site of the page breaks. It is offered so that readers of Apess’s works can compare the text with the more often anthologized 1831 version and freely copy and paste from the text for scholarly purposes. Presented here is a transcription of the first 1829 edition of William Apess’s memoir A Son of the Forest in a clean Word Document format.
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