1776 ALMANAC OF THE BATTLE OF LEXINGTON: Eye Witness Account of the Battle of Lexington: THE NORTH-AMERICAN'S ALMANACK, AND GENTLEMAN'S AND LADY'S DIARY, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD CHRIST 1776. by Samuel Stearns. Massachusetts-Bay: Printed for I. Thomas, in Worcester; B. Edes, in Watertown; and S. & E. Hall, in Cambridge, [1775]. Duodecimo, printed wrappers, 18 (of 24) pp. Also sewn-in is a 42-page handwritten record of accounts for the years 1779-1782, by an unknown recorder. Although the Almanac is lacking several pages, it does contain: ''An Account of the Commencement of Hostilities between Great-Britain and America, in the province of Massachusetts-Bay, by the Rev. Mr. William Gordon, of Roxbury.,'' pp. [5-16]; ''A Short History which sheweth how the Charters of the city of London, with other parts of old England, and the British Colonies in New-England were taken away in the Reign of King Charles the IId.,;'' ''Sir Richard Rum's Advice to the soldiers and others;'' and the first page of ''Directions for