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|Year=1704 | |||
|Year Number=1 | |||
|Headline=Traveler Observes Ball-Playing in CT | |Headline=Traveler Observes Ball-Playing in CT | ||
|Salience=2 | |Salience=2 | ||
|Game=Wicket | |Game=Wicket | ||
|Text=<p>Madame Knight, "in her inimitable journal of her ride from Boston to New York in 1704, speaks of ball-playing in Connecticut."</p> | |Text=<p>Madame Knight, "in her inimitable journal of her ride from Boston to New York in 1704, speaks of ball-playing in Connecticut."</p> | ||
<p>"The Game of Wicket and Some Old-Time Wicket Players," in George Dudley Seymour, < | <p>"The Game of Wicket and Some Old-Time Wicket Players," in George Dudley Seymour, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Papers and Addresses of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Volume II of the Proceedings of the Society</span><em>,</em> [n. p., 1909.] page 284. Submitted by John Thorn, 7/11/04. John notes 9/3/2005 that Seymour observes that Madame Knight does not specifically name the sport as wicket, but he excludes cricket as a possibility because cricket was not then known to have been played in America before 1725; however, John adds, we now have a cricket reference in Virginia from 1709. [See #1709.1, below.]</p> | ||
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| Text | Madame Knight, "in her inimitable journal of her ride from Boston to New York in 1704, speaks of ball-playing in Connecticut." "The Game of Wicket and Some Old-Time Wicket Players," in George Dudley Seymour, Papers and Addresses of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Volume II of the Proceedings of the Society, [n. p., 1909.] page 284. Submitted by John Thorn, 7/11/04. John notes 9/3/2005 that Seymour observes that Madame Knight does not specifically name the sport as wicket, but he excludes cricket as a possibility because cricket was not then known to have been played in America before 1725; however, John adds, we now have a cricket reference in Virginia from 1709. [See #1709.1, below.] |
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