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Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption, 1783 [electronic resource] : Fitted for the meridian of Boston, N.E. lat. 42' 25⁰ N. ...

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Boston : Printed and sold by E. Russell, near Liberty-Stump, [1782]
Physical Description
24 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 12⁰.
Additional Creators
Daboll, Nathan, 1750-1818 and West, Benjamin, 1730-1813
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Attributed to Benjamin West in Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35; and in the Dictionary of American biography. However, the eclipse notes, calculations, and notes on the calendar pages do not resemble those in West's North-American calendar for 1783 (Providence), whereas they contain frequent correspondences or similarities with Nathan Daboll's The New-England almanack and gentleman's and lady's diary for the same year, published at New London under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter, such as to suggest a common authorship.
Two states noted. One has a four-line advertisement for booksellers and shopkeepers in Boston and Salem on p. [24]; the other dfoes not.
Advertised in the Independent ledger, Boston, Oct. 28, 1782.
Reproduction of original from the British Library.
Available online to authorized PSU users as part of the General reference series of Eighteenth century collections online.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements
Reviewed/Cited In
Evans, C. American bibliography, 17792
Drake, M. Almanacs, 3318
English Short Title Catalog, ESTCW35404.
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