Weatherwise's town and country almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1785
Subtitle: ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, latitude 42: 25 n. And will serve, without sensible error for the adjacent states
By: By Abraham Weatherwise, philom. ; [Six lines of verse]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 18764
Publisher: Printed and sold by Weeden and Barrett, at their office south-side State-Street, and directly under Mr. Charles Shimmin's school: also, sold by most of the book-sellers in town and country.
Published: 1784
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Erroneously attributed to David Rittenhouse by Evans. Apparently calculated by Eben W. Judd. The calendar page calculations for the sun and moon, through the middle of September, are identical to those in Judd's An astronomical diary or almanack for 1785 (Hartford). The astronomical notes on these pages are also identical up to the same date, except that they are fewer in Weatherwise and some of their calculations vary. For the remainder of the year some variations are found in the times for the sun and moon. The times for high tide vary throughout the year in the two almanacs.

After September, the astronomical notes on the calendar pages are a puzzle, in that they lose their resemblance to the work of Judd and appear to be an amalgam of that of Nathan Daboll and Daniel George. Daboll's almanac for 1785, issued under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter, was The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary (New London). George's 1785 almanac has not survived, but compare his almanac for 1784, published at Boston.

Advertised in the Independent chronicle, Boston, Nov. 26, 1784.

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴.

Evans 18764

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