The Continental almanac, for the year of our Lord, 1783 ..
By: By Anthony Sharp, philom
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 17701
Publisher: Printed and sold by Francis Bailey, in Market-Street, between Third and Fourth-Streets.
Published: 1782
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Notes: "Anthony Sharp" is a pseudonym found only in almanacs published by Bailey.

Erroneously attributed by Evans to David Rittenhouse. The author was Isaac Briggs, then a tutor at Pennsylvania College, who calculated Der Gantz neue verbesserte nord-americanische Calender for 1783, published at Lancaster. All of the Pennsylvania almanacs for this year have the same calculations and astronomical notes on the calendar pages, with additions and some omissions, as the Nord-Americanische Calender, which alone names a real person as its author.

Samuel Stearns, the Massachusetts calculator, states: "I observed at Philadelphia, in 1783, that a number of almanacks were published from one calculation, under fictitious names, as Father Abraham, Poor Will, Poor Richard, &c.; but could not learn who was the author. The same calculation was also published in the Jersies, under some other name."--The American oracle (New York, 1791) p. 44. Comparison shows the Continental almanac to be one of this group.

Two states noted. The first has briefer weather predictions on the May-August calendar pages. The second has longer and variant predictions on these pages.

Advertised in the Freeman's journal, Philadelphia, Nov. 6, 1782.

Signatures: [A]² B-E⁴.

Title vignette.

Evans 17701

Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 4250

Drake, M. Almanacs, 10141