The Connecticut almanack, for the year of our Lord Christ 1772
Subtitle: ... Calculated for the meridian of New London, in Connecticut, lat. 41 deg. 25 min. north; and 4 h 45 m. west from the Royal Observatory at Greenwich. ...
By: By Edmund Freebetter, student in physic and astronomy. ; [Ten lines of verse]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 42234
Publisher: Printed and sold by T. Green, in New-London.
Published: 1771
Place of publication: New London, Conn.
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Notes: Advertised in the New London gazette, Oct. 18, 1771.

Variously attributed to Clark Elliott and to Nathan Daboll. See Bates, A.C. "Checklist of Connecticut almanacs, 1709-1850." Proc. Amer. Antiq. Soc., n.s. 24 (1914): 125-129. The author's preface states, "this is the first time of my appearing before you in things of the astronomical kind ..." A similar statement is made by Daboll in the preface to his Connecticut almanack for 1773 (New London: T. Green). Elliott was the author of the Connecticut almanack for 1767, 1768, and 1770, also published by Green, but the statement could refer to his appearance under a pseudonym. It could also have been made here by Daboll for the same reason.

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Bristol B3337

Shipton & Mooney 42234

Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut, 218

Drake, M. Almanacs, 275