Bickerstaff's New-England almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1782 ...
Subtitle: Calculated for the meridian of Boston, lat. 42: 25 n. But will serve the adjacent states without any sensible error
Contributors: West, Benjamin, 1730-1813; Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17429
Publisher: Printed and sold by Nathaniel Patten, a few rods north of the State-House.
Published: 1781
Place of publication: Hartford
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Evans attributed this almanac to Benjamin West, as he did nearly all of those published under the Bickerstaff pseudonym. The eclipse predictions, however, are an expanded version, with identical calculations, of those in the New England almanack and gentleman's and lady's diary by "Edmund Freebetter," the pseudonym of Nathan Daboll, published at New London. On the calendar pages, the calculations for the moon, and one third of the astronomical and horological notes, duplicate those in Daboll. The calculations for the sun and tides, and some of those in the notes, have been adjusted. The present almanac is apparently a version by Daboll for the meridian of Boston

It was also printed at Hartford by Bavil Webster, with the same contents, in two identical versions: as Bickerstaff's New England almanack, and as Father Abraham's New England almanack. Evans attributed the latter to David Rittenhouse

Advertised in the Connecticut courant, Hartford, Nov. 13, 1781

Printed from type cast by Abel Buel of Killingworth, Conn

Evans 17429

Trumbull, J.H.  Connecticut, 78

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 341

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