The Virginia Almanack for the Year of our Lord God 1776(1776)
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Printed by John Dixon and William Hunter.
John Page Diary
John Page of Rosewell plantation in Gloucester Co. was a U.S. congressman and Virginia governor. Entries include daily listings of weather conditions in Williamsburg and elsewhere; calculations and observations on astronomy, eclipses, and meteors; lists of horses and their offspring; and accounts for goods and services. There are scattered notes on plantation overseers, sulphur deposits in Spotsylvania and Amelia counties, a slave who died in prison, and various Revolutionary War battles or statistics. Page also noted a donation to soldiers on the eve of independence and a listing of the weights of precious metals.