The author, whose preface is signed "Isaac Bickerstaff," was Benjamin West. Cf. Nichols, C.L. "Notes on the almanacs of Massachusetts." Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, n.s. v. 22 (1912): 34-35, and the Dictionary of American biography. The columns on the calendar pages, eclipse predictions, and other astronomical material duplicate those in West's The New-England almanack, or Lady's and gentleman's diary, for 1769 (Boston : Mein and Fleeming).
Advertised in the Boston chronicle, Oct. 31-Nov. 7, 1768.
Contains the earliest printing of the words and music together of The liberty song, which is generally held to be the first American patriotic song (p. [34]).
Advertisements for books, stationery, and medicine, p. [43-44].
West, Benjamin, 1730-1813.