Virginia Almanack for the year of our Lord God 1765

• imprint_number: 1764.010
• title: The Virginia Almanac, For the Year of our Lord God 1765. Being the First after Bissextile, or Leap-Year. Wherein are contained, The Lunations, Conjunctions, Eclipses; the Sun and Moon's Rising and Setting, the Rising, setting and Southing of the Heavenly Bodies; Weather; &c. Calculated according to Art; And referred to the Horizon of 38 Degrees North Latitude, and a Meridian of Five Hours West from the City of London, Fitting Virginia, Maryland, North-Carolina, &c. Also a Table of Court-Days; Description of the Roads through the Continent; A List of the Council and House of Burgesses in Virginia, with the most approved Treatise extant upon Hemp, which is the whole process of getting that valuable Commodity ready for Exportation, &c. To which is added A Collection of approved Maxims, entertaining Epigrams, curious Anecdotes, diverting Stories &c. &c. &c. Calculated for Instruction and Amusement. By Theophilus Wreg, Philom.
• sequence_number: 10
• year: 1764
• place_issued: Williamsburg
• issuing_press: Joseph Royle and Co.
• author: Grew, Theophilus (d. 1759).
• notes: Grew evidently completed ephemerides for 1760 through 1768 before his death in 1759, as they were part of the almanacs issued for those years by William Hunter and his successors Joseph Royle and Alexander Purdie.
  
  
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