Maps of Solar Eclipses from 1800 to 1809

On June 16, 1806, a total solar eclipse crossed the North America from Baja California to Massachusetts. This was a long duration eclipse with nearly 5 minutes totality at the point of greatest eclipse. While the western United States was sparsely populated, this eclipse did pass over Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. 

Shortly before the eclipse, a remarkable and erudite pamphlet was written by Andrew Newell, an "Inhabitant of Boston'. Someone new to the phenomena of eclipses can read this even today and gain a good and accurate understanding. Andrew Newell was articulate and well-informed and did the citizens of Boston a splendid service by publishing this just before the eclipse. The only advice that would be ill-considered today are the recommended techniques for creating a solar filter. But today we have the luxury of modern solar filters created to strict standards and we can't fault him for improvising with smoked glass and the like.