The Vermont almanac for the year of our Lord 1798: being the second after leap year, and until July fourth, the twenty-second of the independence of America. Fitted to the latitude and longitude of Rutland: latitude 43$ 21' north. Longitude 2 [degrees] 9 [minutes] east of Philadelphia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Williams, Samuel, 1743-1817.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 33228.

Language:

English

Genre:

Almanacs -- Vermont -- 1798.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (40 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Printed at Rutland, (Vermont.) : And sold wholesale and retail, at the printing-office., [1797]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Authorship attributed by Evans to Samuel Williams, who was an astronomer and mathematician formerly on the faculty of Harvard. According to Clifford K. Shipton, in Sibley's Harvard graduates, he "published the Vermont almanac and register in 1796-1800."

Advertised in the Rutland herald Oct. 30, 1797. From Sept. 4, 1797 to Aug. 1, 1798, Samuel Williams and Josiah Fay published the Rutland herald as S. Williams and Company, with imprint reading: Printed by Josiah Fay, for S. Williams and Company.

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 33228).

Cited in:

Evans 33228

McCorison, M.A. Vermont, 422

Drake, M. Almanacs, 13493

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