Bickerstaff's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1788. ...
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. ... To which is added A surprising account of the discovery of a lady who was taken by the Indians in the year 1777, and after making her escape, she retired to a lonely cave, where she lived nine years. With many other things, curious and entertaining
Contributors: West, Benjamin, 1730-1813; Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818; Panther, Abraham.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 20875
Publisher: Printed by John Trumbull, and sold by the gross, dozen or single.
Published: 1787
Place of publication: Norwich [Conn.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Indian captivities
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, 129. But the apparent calculator is Nathan Daboll. The calculations for the sun and moon, and the majority of the astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages (with some slight variations of minutes in the times given in them), correspond to those in The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1788 (New London), calculated by Daboll under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter

Advertised in the Norwich packet, Oct. 18, 1787

"A surprising account of the discovery of a lady ..."--p. [19-24]; signed: Abraham Panther. Apparently fictitious

Evans 20875

Trumbull, J.H.  Connecticut (suppl.), 1846

Drake, M.  Almanacs, 416

Ayer Coll. (suppl.) 13

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