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- 1790s.7 + (<p>Boston MA, with only 18,000 inhab … <p>Boston MA, with only 18,000 inhabitants, was sparsely populated. "Boys played ball in the streets without disturbance, or danger from the rush of traffic." Edmund Quincy, <u>Josiah Quincy of Massachusetts</u> (Fields, Osgood and Company, 1869), page 37. Writing 70 years later, the biographer here is painting a picture of the city when his father Josiah finished school and moved there at 18. He does not document this observation. One might speculate that Josiah had told Edmund about the ballplaying. Accessed on 11/16/2088 via Google Books search for "'life of josiah quincy.'"</p>8 via Google Books search for "'life of josiah quincy.'"</p>)