Mills and Hicks's British and American register, with an almanack for the year 1774; Being the second after bissextile or leap-year. Calculated for the use of all the New-England provinces.
West, Benjamin,1730-1813.
Boston : Printed by Mills and Hicks, at their printing-office in School-Street, next door to Cromwell's-Head,
[1774]
Advertised by Mills and Hicks in the Massachusetts gazette and the Boston post-boy and advertiser, Jan. 10, 1774.
Booksellers' advertisement, p. 108.
Errors in paging: p. 31, 74 misnumbered 13, 47.
In the almanac (p. 12-24) the eclipse predictions and the calendar page calculations duplicate those in Bickerstaff's Boston almanack for .. 1774, also published by Mills and Hicks, which is attributed to Benjamin West. See Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography.
The register includes Great-Britain, the New England colonies, and Nova Scotia.
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ESTC
Evans 12869; Drake, M. Almanacs, 3235