The Essex almanack, for the year of our Lord Christ, 1771 : being the third after bisextile, or leap-year : calculated for the meridian of Salem, in New-England, lat 42 D. 35 M. north

containing, an ephemeris, phenomena and observations in each month, Spring tides, judgment of the weather, feasts and fasts of the Church, Quakers meetings, courts in the four New-England governments, sun and moon's rising and setting, moon's place, a table shewing the time of night by the pointers, time of high water at Salem, publick roads with the best stages or houses to put up at, eclipses, &c. &c.-- Also, a great variety of useful, entertaining pieces, in prose and verse, select sentences, useful Maxims & good cautions. Attributed to Samuel Hall by Evans. Hall is termed the editor and proprietor in Historical collections of the Essex Institute, v. 8 (1866), p. 159. Signatures: [A-B]⁴ C⁴. "Distances of the principal towns on the continent from Boston and Salem", pages [22]-[24]. Title and text printed within ruled border. Advertised in the Essex gazette, Salem, Nov. 13/20, 1770. The previous issue, for 1770, was entitled Philo's Essex almanack. The astronomical and weather predictions among the notes on the calendar pages correspond for the most part with those in Nathanael Low's An astronomical diary or Almanack for 1771 (Boston), suggesting that these pages are probably also the work of Nathanael Low, 1740-1808. though calculated for Salem rather than Boston.