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Bickerstaff's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1788... : Calculated for the meridian of Norwich, but will serve without any essential variation for the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New-Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont. .. To which is added A surprising account of the discovery of a lady who was taken by the Indians in the year 1777, and after making her escape, she retired to a lonely cave, where she lived nine years. With many other things, curious and entertaining.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20875.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Indian captivities.
- Genre:
- Almanacs -- Connecticut -- 1788.
- Captivity narratives.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (24 unnumbered pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Norwich [Conn.]: : Printed by John Trumbull, and sold by the gross, dozen or single., [1787]
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Attributed to Benjamin West by Evans and in Bates, A.C. "Check list of Connecticut almanacs, 1709-1850." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. volume 24 (1914): 102, 129. But the apparent calculator is Nathan Daboll. The calculations for the sun and moon, and the majority of the astronomical and horological notes on the calendar pages (with some slight variations of minutes in the times given in them), correspond to those in The New England almanack and gentlemen and ladies diary for 1788 (New London), calculated by Daboll under the pseudonym of Edmund Freebetter.
- Advertised in the Norwich packet, Oct. 18, 1787.
- "A surprising account of the discovery of a lady ..."--p. [19-24]; signed: Abraham Panther. Apparently fictitious.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 20875).
- Cited in:
- Evans 20875
- Trumbull, J.H. Connecticut (supplement), 1846
- Drake, M. Almanacs, 416
- Ayer Coll. (supplement) 13
- Contains:
- Panther, Abraham. Surprising account of the discovery of a lady who was taken by the Indians.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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