(AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775) Stearns Samuel The North America

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(AMERICAN REVOLUTION--1775.) Stearns, Samuel. The North-American's Almanack, and Gentleman's and Lady's Diary, for . . . 1776. [24] pages. 12mo, disbound; a few scattered manuscript notes in margins, moderate dampstaining and wear, closed tear in margin of title page, 5th and 6th leaves uncut and apparently supplied from a different copy; early signature of Samuel Bridge and American Antiquarian Society inked stamp on title page. Worcester, MA: Isaiah Thomas, [1775]

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Issued during the Siege of Boston, this almanac features William Gordon's "An Account of the Commencement of Hostilities between Great-Britain and America, in the Province of Massachusetts-Bay," which runs over each of the 12 monthly calendar pages in sequence. It also includes an eyewitness account of the Battle of Lexington, quoted at length in Sagendorph's America and Her Almanacs, 89-93 as "the most striking example of this kind of on-the-spot reporting." After that can be found "Sir Richard Rum's Advice to the Soldiers and Others" and "Directions for Preserving the Health of the Soldiers in the Camps." On 22 June 1776, an early owner has noted in a partially cropped entry "Adams dyed, daughter." Joseph Adams, the two-year-old son of future president John Adams, died that day. The almanac makes a prophetic prediction for the 4th of July: "Thunder." Drake 3260; Evans 14473; Sabin 90943.