June 11, 1829

Utica, New York
Richard R. Lansing, clerk of the Northern District Court, entered Joseph Smith's copyright application for the Book of Mormon.
Sources: 
History of the Church, Joseph Smith, 1:58-59
"Copyright Laws and the 1830 Book of Mormon," Nathaniel H. Wadsworth, BYU Studies 45:3
Joseph Smith History A1:34-35 
Copyright for Book of Mormon, 11 June 1829 
Sustaining the Law: Joseph Smith's Legal Encounters Gordon A. Madsen, Jeffrey N. Walker, and John W. Welch, 
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