Annotated almanac, 1745


Autoria(s): Harvard University Archives
Data(s)

31/12/1969

1745

Resumo

Almanac containing calendar pages with sporadic annotations of unidentified measurements and interleaved pages with short handwritten entries about Winthrop's daily activities, and astronomical and meteorological observations. The entries include personal notes about travel, the weather, deaths in the community, notes of public fasts for the Louisbourg expedition (February 28) and the "Indian war" (September 19), and a note of the surrender of Louisbourg (June 17). There is an entry listing the burials and baptisms in Boston by month, with the deaths subdivided for white and black individuals, and notes of "French prisoners" for July and "Fever & flux" for September.

The title page is no longer extant.

Identificador

http://ids.lib.harvard.edu/ids/view/45561626?width=150&height=150&usethumb=y

http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ARCH:10355687

http://colonialnorthamerican.library.harvard.edu/prod/cna/hua07010c00008

Publicador

Harvard University Archives

Relação

Harvard University Archives: Papers of John and Hannah Winthrop, 1728-1789-->Diaries of John and Hannah Winthrop, 1739-1789-->Almanacs of John Winthrop,

Direitos

The Papers of John and Hannah Winthrop are open for research.