TY - BOOK PB - Printed and sold by J. & T. Fleet, at the Bible and Heart in Cornhill TI - Fleets' register, and pocket almanack for the year of our Lord 1799 [electronic resource] : Being the third after leap year, and twenty-third of American independence which began July 4th, 1776. Calculated chiefly for the use of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston, the metropolis, being in latitude 42 deg. 23 min. north, and 70 deg. 58, 53. west long. 348 miles n.e. of Philadelphia T3 - Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 33739. KW - Massachusetts -- Registers. A2 - Low, Nathanael, 1740-1808 A2 - Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society CY - Boston M1 - Subscription and registration required for access. N1 - Entered by Evans under the publishers, Thomas and John Fleet, whose names also appear in earlier issues as editors of the Register. The present Thomas is the son of Thomas the elder, who died in March, 1797. N1 - The almanac is by Nathanael Low. The page on eclipses and the transit of Mercury duplicates that in his An astronomical diary or almanack for 1799 (also published by Fleet) but for two slight omissions. The calculations on the calendar pages are identical in the two almanacs, except that those for the moon's phases are here abbreviated. The weather predictions and astronomical notes on these pages tend to correspond, except that as usual their number is reduced om the Pocket almanac. N1 - Advertised in the Columbian centinel, Boston, Dec. 15, 1798. N1 - "The Massachusetts register, &c."--147 p. at end. N1 - "The following are inserted at the desire of the Massachusetts Charitable Fire Society. ... Directions for preventing calamities by fire."--p. 80-83. N1 - Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. UR - http://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/33739 PY - 1798 M1 - Accessed from https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3384638 ER -