Ames Almanack

Ames Almanack
Cover of Ames Almanack in 1761
AuthorNathaniel Ames (1725-1764)
Nathaniel Ames (1764-1775)
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreAlmanac
Published1725-1775

Ames' Almanack (almanac) was the first almanac printed in the British North American colonies. While Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack is more widely known, the Ames' Almanack had a much larger readership. Franklin's publication had a circulation of 10,000 copies compared to 60,000 for the Ames' Almanack.[1]

  1. ^ Jorgenson, Chester E. (Dec 1935). "The New Science in the Almanacs of Ames and Franklin". The New England Quarterly. 8 (4): 555–556. doi:10.2307/360361. ISSN 0028-4866. JSTOR 360361.