Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, BY CHARLES BOWEN, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts. CAMBRIDGE: CHARLES FOLSOM, 70363 IN presenting the seventh volume of the American Almanac to the public, we avail ourselves of the opportunity, which the occasion affords, of expressing our grateful acknowledgments to our correspondents, who have kindly forwarded information for the improvement of the work; and we respectfully solicit a continuance of similar favors. For information relating to the astronomical department, we would refer the reader to the Preliminary Observations of Mr. Paine. Explanations and remarks in relation to various other matters will be found in different parts of the work. This volume of the Almanac contains the usual register of the general and state governments, together with a variety of other statistical and miscellaneous matter; but it is more particularly characterized by an account of the principal Benevolent Institutions of the United States, and a view of the ecclesiastical statistics of the Religious Denominations. With respect to the accounts of the Benevolent Institutions, the substance of the greater part of them has been kindly furnished by gentlemen who are connected with the several institutions in an official capacity; and the others have been derived mainly from official sources. We have, for the most part, limited our notices to such institutions as are of a general or national character. A few such which we intended to notice, have been omitted; but they may perhaps hereafter receive attention. We had designed to give some account of the Benevolent Institutions of the Individual States; but it was found that the limits of the work would not admit of its being done in a satisfactory manner. |