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Military Unit Plays "Bat and Ball" in Northern NYS

Salience	Noteworthy
Tags	MilitaryMilitary
Location
City/State/Country:	Ticonderoga, NY, United States
Modern Address
Game	Bat-and-BallBat-and-Ball
Immediacy of Report	Contemporary
Age of Players	AdultAdult
Holiday
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Text	In 1758, Benjamin Glazier recorded in his diary that "Captain Garrish's company played 'bat and ball'" near Fort Ticonderoga.
Sources	Benjamin Glazier, French and Indian War Diary of Benjamin Glazier of Ipswich,1758-1760. Essex Institute Historical Collections, volume 86 (1950), page 65, page 68. The original diary is held at the Peabody-Essex Museum, Salem MA. Note: Brian Turner notes, August 2014, that: "I've had to cobble together the above citation without seeing the actual publication or the original ms. The Hathi Trust allows me to search for page numbers of vol. 86, but not images of those pages, and when I put in "bat and ball" I get hits on p. 65 and p. 68. P. 65 also provides hits for "Ticonderoga" and "Gerrish's," so that would be the most likely place for all the elements to be cited. The original clue came from a website on the history of Fort Ticonderoga, but I can no longer find that website."
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Comment	Fort Ticonderoga is about 100 miles N of Albany NY at the southern end of Lake Champlain. Ipswich MA is about 10 miles N of Salem MA. Edit with form to add a comment
Query	Can the date of the diary entry be traced? Edit with form to add a query
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Submitted by	Brian Turner
Submission Note	Email of 8/31/2014
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