The Rhode-Island almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1801
Subtitle: ...calculated for the meridian of Newport--lat. 41 degrees 25 minutes north--long. 71 deg. 15 min. west. But will serve for any of the adjacent states.
Contributors: Southwick, Remington, 1779-1807.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 38392.
Publisher: by Oliver Farnsworth, printer to the state of Rhode-Island, &c. Great allowance to those who purchase quantities.
Published: 1800
Place of publication: Published at Newport [R.I.]
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Advertised in the Guardian of liberty, Newport, November 1, 1800.

Identical in content and typography (except for the title, the vignette, and arrangement of pages) with the Newport almanac for 1801, also issued by Farnsworth.

The astronomical content is apparently the work of Remington Southwick, whose almanacs for subsequent years were all published by Farnsworth after Southwick moved to Rhode Island. He was still living at his birthplace of Mendon, Mass., in 1800, and his signed almanac for 1801 was published at Dedham by H. Mann as the Columbian calendar. In the present almanac the calculations for the rising, setting, and phases of the moon are identical with those in the Columbian calendar; the astronomical notes on the calendar pages correspond with significant frequency; and the eclipse predictions are a briefer version with identical calculations. Differences appear in part of the calculations on the calendar pages because the Columbian almanac is for the meridian of Boston and the present one for that of Newport.

Evans 38392

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 1654

Drake, M. Almanacs, 12973

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 38392).