LXIX. Observations of the transit of Venus over the Sun, June 3, 1769; made by Mr. Owen Biddle and Mr. Joel Bayley, at Lewestown, in Pennsylvania. Communicated by Benjamin Franklin, LL.D. F. R. S

Abstract

On the 26th of May, 1769, Joel Bayly and myself arrived at Lewestown (on Cape Hinlopen at the mouth of Delaware Bay), being ordered there, by the American Philosophical Society, held at Philadelphia, for promoting useful knowledge to take an observation of the ensuing transit of Venus over the Sun's disc; and immediately set about fixing our time-piece, in a house (which we hired) on the south street of the town, where we were most likely to be free from interruption, and had an open view of the Sun and stars for our observations.