Robert Ball Edes weather diary for Boston and Charlestown, Mass. : typed transcript, 1841-1851.

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Robert Ball Edes weather diary for Boston and Charlestown, Mass. : typed transcript, 1841-1851.

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Typed transcribed weather diary kept from 1841 through 1851 by Robert Ball Edes. The following note is found on leaf 69 of the transcript: "The morning & evening observations were taken at Charlestown and Noon in State Street in Boston except on Sundays, when all three were taken at Charlestown. R.B.E." Edes recorded temperature, wind direction, precipitation, and occasional notes and comments unrelated to weather.

1 v. (392 leaves) ; 28 cm.

Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Concord Free Public Library, Special Collection

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Edes, Robert Ball, 1789-1862

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Massachusetts sea captain; member of Boston Marine Society. Born Sept. 3, 1789, in Charlestown, Mass., to Thomas and Mary Ball Edes. Died in Worcester, Mass., Sept. 22, 1862; buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Married Sarah Barker of Pembroke, Mass., on Jan. 18, 1818. Their daughter Sarah (born in 1827 in Charlestown, died in 1895 in Concord, Mass.) became the wife of George Lincoln Prescott, a Concord dealer in lumber, building supplies, coal, hay, etc. (G.L. Prescott fought in the C...