Thomas's Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, and Connecticut almanack for the year of our Lord Christ 1779 ..
By: By Philomathes. ; [Six lines of verse]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 15813
Publisher: Printed and sold by Isaiah Thomas.
Published: 1778
Place of publication: Massachusetts-Bay: Worcester
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Attributed to Ezra Gleason by Evans, but possibly by Daniel George. The eclipse predictions (p. [15]) are for four eclipses, and George's An almanack for 1779 (Boston) seems to have been the only other one in New England omitting the invisible solar eclipse of May 15, which made five. The calendar pages notes include calculations for the Yard L (or Yard and Ell: the belt of Orion) and for P.N. (pointers north). Calculations for the movement and position of these stars were peculiar at this time to the almanacs of George and Nathaniel Low, and regularly appear there. There is no other significant resemblance to Low in the present almanac. Only a part of the calculations throughout George's signed almanac are duplicated in the present one, probably because one but not the other was calculated for the specific meridian of Boston.

The almanacs published by Isaiah Thomas for 1779-1795 are attributed by Evans to Ezra Gleason, but most appear to be the work of other identifiable calculators. The basis for Evans' attribution appears to be that Gleason calculated and signed almanacs for 1773 and 1774 entitled The Massachusetts calendar, the 1774 issue being published by Thomas, and that Thomas next issued a pseudonymous almanac for 1775 entitled Thomas's New-England almanack or The Massachusetts calendar. Evans apparently attributed this to Gleason on the strength of the subtitle, and automatically extended the attribution to Thomas's succeeding series which began in 1779.

Advertised in the Massachusetts spy, Worcester, Nov. 5, 1778.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.

Evans 15813

Drake, M. Almanacs, 3283