SATURDAY, DEC'R 24, 1853.

The Salem Observer.

ANOTHER OLD ALMANACK. In our last we gave an account of an
old Almanack for the year 1703. Since then we have seen
another some sixteen years older, printed for the year 1687.
It was bound in with an old account book that formerly
belonged to the Rev. Thomas Barnard, a minister of Andover,
from 1682 to 1718,--the great-grandfather of the Rev. Thomas
Barnard, D.D., the first minister of the North Church in
this city, who died Oct. 1, 1814, in the sixty-seventh year
of his age, also an ancestor of Capt. Edward Barnard, of
this city. We insert the title page and other extracts
therefrom, which we trust will impart the same interest to
our readers as we derived from its perusal.

It is prefaced by the following:

Novemb. 24th, 1686. I have Perused the Copy of an Almanack
for the Ensuing Year, Composed by John Tulley, and find
nothing in it contrary to His Majesties Laws, and therefore
Allow it to be Printed, and Published by Benjamin Harris,
Book-Seller in Boston.

EDWARD RANDOLPH, Secr.

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