Thomas's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-Hampshire & Vermont almanack, with an ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1788
Subtitle: ... Fitted to the latitude and longitude of the town of Boston, but will serve without essential variation for the adjacent states. ..
Contributors: Gleason, Ezra, 1748-1808?; Stearns, Samuel, 1741-1809.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 20392.
Publisher: by Isaiah Thomas. (Price 40 s. per gross. 4 s. per dozen. Six pence single.)
Published: 1787
Place of publication: Printed at Worcester [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 48
Notes: Though the Thomas almanacs through 1795 were ascribed by Evans to Ezra Gleason, most can be attributed with varying degrees of certainty to other identifiable calculators. The present one, like those for 1786 and 1787, is the apparent work of Samuel Stearns. The calculations on the calendar pages of his The universal calendar and the North-American almanack for 1788 (Boston), are duplicated here, including those for sunrise, tides, the moon's rising, setting, and phases, and (in the notes column) the rising, southing, and setting of the 7 stars or Pleiades. Thomas's almanac, devoting two pages to each month, contains additional columns of calculations and more astronomical and other notes. A letter from Stearns to Thomas, dated March 3, 1788, in the manuscript collection of the American Antiquarian Society, speaks of preparing copy for Thomas's 1789 almanac, and implies his authorship of that for 1788 in stating: "I have not recd the 2 doz. of almanacks--please to let me know who you dld [i.e. delivered] them to."

Advertised in the Worcester magazine, Oct. 1787.

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Evans 20392.

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Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20392)