@article{633661, note = {The author, whose preface is signed "Isaac Bickerstaff," was Benjamin West. Cf. Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography. The eclipse notes are identical, and the calendar page notes practically so, with those in West's The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1774 (Providence). The calculations for the moon's place, rising, and setting, are identical, though the rest vary, being for Boston rather than Providence.}, author = {West, Benjamin,}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/633661}, title = {Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, for the year of our redemption 1774 ... Calculated for the meridian of Boston, N.E. lat. 42' 25⁰ n. [electronic resource] :}, publisher = {Printed and sold by Mills and Hicks, at their printing-office, in School-Street, next to Cromwell's Head Tavern, (Price seven coppers single, and three and four pence the dozen.),}, recid = {633661}, pages = {32p., [1]folded leaf :}, address = {Boston :}, year = {1773}, }