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- 1816.10 + (<p>Richard Hershberger [emails of 1/ … <p>Richard Hershberger [emails of 1/28/09 and 2/4/10] reports seeing advertisements in the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">American Beacon</span> for a Norfolk Cricket Club from 1816 to 1820:</p></br><p>"CRICKET CLUB. A meeting of the Subscribers to this Club, will be held at the <em>Exchange Coffee House,</em> this evening at 6 o'clock, for the purpose of draughting Rules and Regluations for the government."</p></br><p><span style="text-decoration: underline;">American Beacon</span>(Norfolk VA), October 25, 1816. Subsequent notices were for playing times.</p></br><p><strong>Note:</strong> In <span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Tented Field</span>, Tom Melville writes that a 1989 book has the Norfolk Club being founded in 1803 in imitation of English customs (page 164, note 10). Patricia Click, in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Spirit of the Times</span> (UVa Press, 1989), page 119, cites the October 1, 1803 issue of the "Norfolk and Portsmouth Herald" [likely then the "Norfolk Herald"] in reference to an observation [page 73] about the social makeup of cricket clubs. <strong>Query:</strong> can we find out what the 1803 paper actually says about cricket, if anything?</p>page 73] about the social makeup of cricket clubs. <strong>Query:</strong> can we find out what the 1803 paper actually says about cricket, if anything?</p>)