Anderson improved: being an almanack, and ephemeris, for the year of our Lord 1773
Subtitle: ... Calculated for Newport, Rhode-Island, lat. 41, 27, n. and long. 71, 10, west from London: but may very well serve throughout all the northern colonies: ...
By: By John Anderson, philom
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 12310
Publisher: Printed by Solomon Southwick, and to be sold, wholesale and retail, at his office in Queen-Street, as cheap as any in New-England.
Published: 1772
Place of publication: Newport, Rhode-Island
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Notes: Half-title: Anderson's almanac.

The prefaces to "Anderson's" almanacs for 1772-1773 indicate that he was a head of family in Newport or its vicinity who chose not to make his identity known. No family named Anderson is listed in the Rhode Island census of 1774, and no John Anderson is found in the Rhode Island vital records for the period. The calculations in the revived Anderson almanac for 1780 were by Benjamin West. Cf. Alden, p. 293; and Chapin, H.M. "Check list of Rhode Island almanacs." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 25 (1915): 26 and 38.

Advertised in the Newport Mercury, November 30, 1772, as "Just published."

Signatures: [A]⁴ B-D⁴.

Evans 12310

Alden, J.E. Rhode Island, 485

Drake, M. Almanacs, 12385