1781.3

"Game at Ball" Variously Perceived at Harvard College

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Tags	College, Harvard CollegeCollege, Harvard College
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City/State/Country:	Cambridge, MA, United States
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Game
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	YouthYouth
Holiday
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Text	"And that no other person was present in said area, except a boy who, they say was playing with a Ball From the testimony some of the persons in the kitchen it appeared that the company there assembled were very noisy That some game at Ball was played That some of the company called on the Boy to keep tally; which Boy was seen by the same person, repeated by running after the Ball, with a penknife & stick in his hand, on which stick notches were cut That a Person who tarried at home at Dr. Appleton's was alarmed by an unusual noise about three o'clock, & on looking out the window, saw in the opening between Hollis & Stoughton, four or five persons, two of whom were stripped of their coats, running about, sometimes stooping down & apparently throwing something . . ."
Sources	Source: Harvard College Faculty Records (Volume IV, 1775-1781), call number UAIII 5.5.2, page 220 (1781). Posted to 19CBB by Kyle DeCicco-Carey [date?]
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