American almanacs

[citation needed] The earliest almanac published for New England appeared in Cambridge, Massachusetts as early as 1639, by William Pierce.

[1] The earliest New England almanac of which an extant copy survives in the Library of Congress[2] was published by Zechariah Brigden in Cambridge in 1659.

[3] Harvard College became the first center for the annual publication of almanacs with various editors including Samuel Danforth, Oakes, Cheever, Chauncey, Dudley, Foster, et alia.

Daily journal entries consisted of buildings being built, debt and spending, the death of neighbors, personal diaries, earthquakes, and weather.

From the late 18th to early 19th century, there began a fashion of Farmers' Almanacs published regionally in the newly independent United States.