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Future Ship Captain Chooses Reading Over Boyish Sports

Salience Noteworthy
City/State/Country: Wilmington, DE, United States
Immediacy of Report Retrospective
Age of Players Juvenile
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"[Reading] took precedence [over] Kites, Marbles, Balls, Shinny Sticks, and all other Boyish Sports.)  -- John Hamilton, of Wilmington DE 

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John Hamilton, "Some Reminiscences of Wilm't'n and My Youthful Days," Delaware History, v.1 no. 2 (July 1946), page 91.

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What dates this reflection to the 1790s?

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