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Title Thomas's Massachusetts, New-Hampshire and Connecticut almanack, for the year of our Lord Christ 1781 [electronic resource] : ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, but will serve without any essential variation for either of the four New England states. ...
Publication Info. Massachusetts-Bay: Worcester : Printed and sold by Isaiah Thomas, [1780]

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Description [24]p. ; 4⁰.
Note Subsequent issues were entitled Thomas's Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode-Island, New-Hampshire and Vermont almanack.
Attributed to Ezra Gleason by Evans, as he does the entire series through 1795. The preface is signed "Philomathes." The calendar page notes include calculations for the Yard L (Yard Line, or Yard and Ell: the belt of Orion) and for P.N. (Pointers north). Calculations for the movement and position of these stars were peculiar at this time to the almanacs of Daniel George and Nathaniel Low. The rest of the notes in the same column on the calendar pages are much closer to those in George's signed almanac for this year (George's almanack for 1781: Newburyport, Mass.) than to Low's. But there is no significant degree of identity in the calculations, even though both almanacs are supposedly for the meridian of Boston.
Advertised in the Massachusetts spy, Worcester, Oct. 19, 1780.
Signatures: [A]⁴ B-C⁴
Indexed In: Evans, 16786
Drake, M. Almanacs, 3302
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
Indexed In: English Short Title Catalog, W22842.
Note Reproduction of original from British Library.
Subject Almanacs, English -- Massachusetts -- Early works to 1800.
Added Author Gleason, Ezra, 1748-1808?. Author.
OCLC # eccoW22842
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