Bickerstaff's New-England almanack for the year of our Lord 1794. ...
Subtitle: Calculated for the meridian of Norwich, but will serve without any essential variation for the states of Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont. ..
Contributors: West, Benjamin, 1730-1813; Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 26461
Publisher: Printed by J. Trumbull, at Norwich, (Connecticut) and sold cheap, by the gross or dozen. Cash given for rags at his office.
Published: 1793
Place of publication: [Norwich, Conn.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Attributed to Benjamin West by Evans and in Bates, A.C. "Check list of Connecticut almanacs, 1709-1850." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 24 (1914): 102, 109. But the extensive eclipse predictions are a close version of those in Nathan Daboll's The New-England almanack (New London) for this year; and in the calendar pages the calculations for the moon, most of those for the sun, and many of the astronomical notes are identical with Daboll's

Two settings of gathering C noted, with different contents throughout. One has "Anecdotes" at the foot of p. [24]; the other has an advertisement for "Books of various kinds ..." in the corresponding position

Advertised in the Norwich packet, Oct. 10, 1793

Evans 26461

Trumbull, J.H.  Connecticut (suppl.), 1852

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 516

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