By Nathaniel Ames. ; [Twelve lines of verse]. Printed and sold by R. and S. Draper, in Newbury-Street; Edes & Gill, and Green & Russell, in Queen-Street; and T. & J. Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill. [i.e. Printed by Timothy Green] Sold also by the booksellers. Price: 3s. 4d. per dozen, and 7 coppers single., [1764]" ... being bereaved of the author ..., I, his son ... was induced to finish this almanack"--unnumbered page 2. The compilation of this issue was begun by the elder Nathaniel Ames (1708-1764) and completed by his son Nathaniel. Cf. New England Historical and Genealogical Record, v. 16 (1862), p. 255-257. See also the preface by the younger Ames, whose "Elegy on the death of the late Dr. Ames" is also included in the almanac (unnumbered pages 21-22). The Massachusetts gazette advertisement states: "The late Dr. Nathaniel Ames had finished his calculations for this almanac, and prepared a copy thereof, before his death, excepting the eclipses, which, together with the additional part, has since been completed by his son."
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Printed and sold by R. and S. Draper, in Newbury-Street
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Containing eclipses, ephemeris, aspects, spring-tides, judgment of the weather, feasts and fasts of the Church, courts in Massachusetts-Bay, New-Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode-Island, sun and moon's rising and setting, time of high-water, roads with the best stages or houses to put up at.-- An elegy on the death of the late Dr. Ames. Some practical rules for husbandry.
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By Nathaniel Ames. ; [Twelve lines of verse]. Printed and sold by R. and S. Draper, in Newbury-Street; Edes & Gill, and Green & Russell, in Queen-Street; and T. & J. Fleet, at the Heart and Crown in Cornhill. [i.e. Printed by Timothy Green] Sold also by the booksellers. Price: 3s. 4d. per dozen, and 7 coppers single., [1764]" ... being bereaved of the author ..., I, his son ... was induced to finish this almanack"--unnumbered page 2. The compilation of this issue was begun by the elder Nathaniel Ames (1708-1764) and completed by his son Nathaniel. Cf. New England Historical and Genealogical Record, v. 16 (1862), p. 255-257. See also the preface by the younger Ames, whose "Elegy on the death of the late Dr. Ames" is also included in the almanac (unnumbered pages 21-22). The Massachusetts gazette advertisement states: "The late Dr. Nathaniel Ames had finished his calculations for this almanac, and prepared a copy thereof, before his death, excepting the eclipses, which, together with the additional part, has since been completed by his son."
Florida Atlantic University Libraries' Marvin and Sybil Weiner Spirit of America Collection, Pamphlets: Almanacs B1F23
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24 unnumbered pages; 17 cm
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An astronomical diary : or, Almanack for the Year of Our Lord Christ, 1765. Being the first after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, New-England, Lat. 42 Deg. 25 Min. North.
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Boston, Ma.
Printed and sold by R. and S. Draper, in Newbury-Street
1765
1765
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Boston, Ma.
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An astronomical diary : or, Almanack for the Year of Our Lord Christ, 1765. Being the first after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, New-England, Lat. 42 Deg. 25 Min. North.
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An astronomical diary : or, Almanack for the Year of Our Lord Christ, 1765. Being the first after Bissextile or Leap-Year. Calculated for the Meridian of Boston, New-England, Lat. 42 Deg. 25 Min. North.
Almanac for the year of our Lord Christ 1765