[4] The younger Nathaniel strongly supported the antifederalist cause, unlike his brother, Fisher Ames, who was a Federalist congressman.

[7] In 1775, when the American Revolution began, the almanac published a manual on how to make gunpowder so that every man could supply himself "with a sufficiency of that commodity.

[10] The Old Farmer's Almanac, a popular annual publication in existence since 1792, copied the format used in the Ames' Almanack.

This included page headings with the corresponding zodiac sign; left margin noting movable feasts, lines from a poem relevant to that month; phases of the moon; weather predictions; and anniversaries.

The American Antiquarian Society collection in Worcester, Massachusetts holds at least two of these diaries, including that of Reverend Thomas Balch (1759).