The Rhode-Island almanack for the year, 1734.

... Fitted to the meridian of Newport, on Rhode-Island, whose latitude north is 41 gr. 30 m. longitude from London, 72 grs.

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Published 1733 by Printed and sold by J. Franklin, at his printing-house under the town school-house. Sold also by T. Fleet, printer, in Boston. in Newport [R.I.] .
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James Franklin published the Rhode-Island Almanack in His brother Benjamin Franklin published his Poor Richard's Almanack from Benjamin Banneker () was a free African American who published a series of successful almanacs from Anne Royall Some historians consider Anne Royall () to be the first American newspaper woman; by some accounts she is the first professional woman journalist in the United States. In the s, Anne and her widowed mother were employed as servants in the household of William Royall, a wealthy American Revolution veteran who lived in Sweet Springs, West Virginia.

Rhode Island Lighthouses: A Pictorial History is a unique book. There are over photographs of Rhode Island Lighthouses and lighthships in the book, including rare views of Gould Island Lighthouse, Hog Island Shoal Lightship LV, Nayatt Point Lighthouse and Point Judith Lighthouse. In the NSLM’s F. Ambrose Clark Rare Book Room we have several copies of minor almanacs (including The Hagerstown Town and Country Almanack from the s to the mids and Richardson’s Almanac of Virginia and North Carolina from the s) that give detailed insight into daily life for the era. The heart of the annual almanac was the. In he printed Anderson’s Constitutions as Mason Book, which was the first Masonic book printed in America. In he was a visitor to Lodge Saint David at Edinburgh, Scotland and on Nov. 17, was present at the Grand Lodge of England, held at Crown & Anchor, London as “provincial grand master.”.

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