- Title
- Annotated almanac ; Almanacs of John Winthrop
- 1755
- Almanac containing calendar pages with sporadic annotations of measurements and small one-word notes. Winthrop often corrected the almanac's printed chart for the rising and setting of the sun. There are a few handwritten entries including a note in Latin about Winthrop's mother. An unattached sheet of paper folded into the almanac has burial and baptism statistics for Boston and Charleston, and entries about General Braddock's defeat by the French (July 9), a battle between General Johnson and the French and Indians under the Baron de Dieskau (September 8), the execution of two slaves for murdering their master (September 18), and a note that President Holyoke preached the Dudleian lecture (November 25).|The almanac is not interleaved.
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- Books and documents
- Papers of John and Hannah Winthrop, HUM 9
- HUM 9 Box 4, Volume 14
- Harvard University Archives
- The Papers of John and Hannah Winthrop are open for research.
- hua07010c00016
- Title
- Annotated almanac ; Almanacs of John Winthrop
- Date
- 1755
- Description
- Almanac containing calendar pages with sporadic annotations of measurements and small one-word notes. Winthrop often corrected the almanac's printed chart for the rising and setting of the sun. There are a few handwritten entries including a note in Latin about Winthrop's mother. An unattached sheet of paper folded into the almanac has burial and baptism statistics for Boston and Charleston, and entries about General Braddock's defeat by the French (July 9), a battle between General Johnson and the French and Indians under the Baron de Dieskau (September 8), the execution of two slaves for murdering their master (September 18), and a note that President Holyoke preached the Dudleian lecture (November 25).|The almanac is not interleaved.
- Language
- Undefined
- Digital Format
- Books and documents
- In Collection
- Papers of John and Hannah Winthrop, HUM 9
- Container
- HUM 9 Box 4, Volume 14
- Repository
- Harvard University Archives
- Rights
- The Papers of John and Hannah Winthrop are open for research.
- Record ID
- hua07010c00016
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