An Almanack for XXX years. from the year of our Lord 1677, to ye year 1706. Shewing the Suns place, sun Riseing, and seting, Age of ye Moon, & time of high Water, etc.
London: printed for the Company of Stationers and to be sold by the Author at the Hermitage in Wapping and at his shop in Popes head Alley, n.d. [but 1676]. 12mo (131 x 80 mm). Engraved throughout, printed recto only of each leaf: title, 12pp. of months of the year, 2 double-page tables, 1 double-page zodiacal diagram, 21pp. text or tables. Most leaves with manuscript notes (mostly records of dates of birth, death, marriage, etc.) on the reverse; in addition there are similar manuscript notes on the free endpapers and blanks and also on inserted leaves between the months of the year, with two items of loosely-inserted ephemera (a mounted section of grey satin cloth, the mount inscribed "Deborah Norris Logan's wedding dress," and a printed Bank of Maryland 12 ½ cent bill, dated Baltimore 1815). Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, with later (18th century?) gold patterned satin chemise with cloth ties. Housed in a modern speckled calf-backed marbled paper-covered box. Condition : stitching loose, four leaves pasted together, two of these crudely opened with resultant tears to one leaf, one leaf clipped; chemise worn and torn with loss to spine. Provenance : Samuel Wilson (manuscript note); Isaac Norris (numerous manuscript entries, including a note that the book was "Bought of Saml. Wilson" and on the following page with the purchase dated to 1690 "in Jamaica"); by descent (numerous 18th and 19th century manuscript entries in various hands, the latest entry being the birth of Algernon Sydney Logan the son of John Dickinson Logan and his wife Susan in 1849). the norris-logan-dickinson family diary: an important relic and record of a pennsylvanian dynasty. This rare almanac was bought by Isaac Norris in Jamaica (probably Port Royal) two years before he made his first trading expedition to Philadelphia in 1692, and kept by him as a diary, making additions to it throughout the rest of his life. In about 1693, Norris had settled more permanently in Philadelphia and within ten years was one of the most successful merchants of his time. Within twenty years he was second only to James Logan in terms of the influence he had with the Penn family. Cited as an "example of the emergence of a genuine colonial aristocracy," with a relatively opulent country estate, Norris kept his Quaker plainness close to his heart, as evidenced by the maintenance of this well-used diary/almanac (Nash, Quakers and Politics, p. 325). Norris annotates the almanac, both within the calendar pages and on facing leaves, with the momentous events of his life: his marriage, the births of his children, and many of their deaths. The diary entries include annotations by a host of Norris, Dickinson, Logan, and other family relations as it was passed down to successive generations. His son Isaac first continued his father's habit of adding details of both useful facts (a list of world voyages; how to calculate interest, etc.) and also family events: births, marriages, deaths. Among these is the recording of the death of his father, "Isaac Norris (the Elder) dyed at German Town in the Meeting house June 4th 1735" and with the next entry recording the passing of his mother Mary Norris. A later entry facing the June page of the almanac repeats his father's passing, with the added information that he "dyed of an apoplexy … without a groan or any pain." Another entry by him includes his marriage to Sarah Logan, the daughter of James Logan on 6 June 1739. The diary was further continued by patriot Jonathan Dickinson, who had married Isaac Norris II's daughter Mary Norris, an event recorded by him underneath that of his father-in-law's entry of his own marriage. Other entries by Dickinson include the birth of his daughter Sally in 1771 and a note which appears to be in his hand concerning the burning of the Norris family estate Fairhill by the British in 1777. The diary continues into the 19th century, with additional Norris-Logan-Dickinson genealogical records of ownersh
An Almanack for XXX years. from the year of our Lord 1677, to ye year 1706. Shewing the Suns place, sun Riseing, and seting, Age of ye Moon, & time of high Water, etc.
London: printed for the Company of Stationers and to be sold by the Author at the Hermitage in Wapping and at his shop in Popes head Alley, n.d. [but 1676]. 12mo (131 x 80 mm). Engraved throughout, printed recto only of each leaf: title, 12pp. of months of the year, 2 double-page tables, 1 double-page zodiacal diagram, 21pp. text or tables. Most leaves with manuscript notes (mostly records of dates of birth, death, marriage, etc.) on the reverse; in addition there are similar manuscript notes on the free endpapers and blanks and also on inserted leaves between the months of the year, with two items of loosely-inserted ephemera (a mounted section of grey satin cloth, the mount inscribed "Deborah Norris Logan's wedding dress," and a printed Bank of Maryland 12 ½ cent bill, dated Baltimore 1815). Contemporary marbled paper-covered boards, with later (18th century?) gold patterned satin chemise with cloth ties. Housed in a modern speckled calf-backed marbled paper-covered box. Condition : stitching loose, four leaves pasted together, two of these crudely opened with resultant tears to one leaf, one leaf clipped; chemise worn and torn with loss to spine. Provenance : Samuel Wilson (manuscript note); Isaac Norris (numerous manuscript entries, including a note that the book was "Bought of Saml. Wilson" and on the following page with the purchase dated to 1690 "in Jamaica"); by descent (numerous 18th and 19th century manuscript entries in various hands, the latest entry being the birth of Algernon Sydney Logan the son of John Dickinson Logan and his wife Susan in 1849). the norris-logan-dickinson family diary: an important relic and record of a pennsylvanian dynasty. This rare almanac was bought by Isaac Norris in Jamaica (probably Port Royal) two years before he made his first trading expedition to Philadelphia in 1692, and kept by him as a diary, making additions to it throughout the rest of his life. In about 1693, Norris had settled more permanently in Philadelphia and within ten years was one of the most successful merchants of his time. Within twenty years he was second only to James Logan in terms of the influence he had with the Penn family. Cited as an "example of the emergence of a genuine colonial aristocracy," with a relatively opulent country estate, Norris kept his Quaker plainness close to his heart, as evidenced by the maintenance of this well-used diary/almanac (Nash, Quakers and Politics, p. 325). Norris annotates the almanac, both within the calendar pages and on facing leaves, with the momentous events of his life: his marriage, the births of his children, and many of their deaths. The diary entries include annotations by a host of Norris, Dickinson, Logan, and other family relations as it was passed down to successive generations. His son Isaac first continued his father's habit of adding details of both useful facts (a list of world voyages; how to calculate interest, etc.) and also family events: births, marriages, deaths. Among these is the recording of the death of his father, "Isaac Norris (the Elder) dyed at German Town in the Meeting house June 4th 1735" and with the next entry recording the passing of his mother Mary Norris. A later entry facing the June page of the almanac repeats his father's passing, with the added information that he "dyed of an apoplexy … without a groan or any pain." Another entry by him includes his marriage to Sarah Logan, the daughter of James Logan on 6 June 1739. The diary was further continued by patriot Jonathan Dickinson, who had married Isaac Norris II's daughter Mary Norris, an event recorded by him underneath that of his father-in-law's entry of his own marriage. Other entries by Dickinson include the birth of his daughter Sally in 1771 and a note which appears to be in his hand concerning the burning of the Norris family estate Fairhill by the British in 1777. The diary continues into the 19th century, with additional Norris-Logan-Dickinson genealogical records of ownersh
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