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<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">At Harvard, 1729, in a letter dated March 30 from John Seccomb to Nicholas Gilman: “The Batchelors Play Batt & Ball mightily now adays which Stirs our bloud greatly” </span></p> | <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">At Harvard, 1729, in a letter dated March 30 from John Seccomb to Nicholas Gilman: “The Batchelors Play Batt & Ball mightily now adays which Stirs our bloud greatly” </span></p> | ||
|Sources=<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Nicholas Gilman papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, as cited in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New England Life in the Eighteenth Century</span> (Clifford K. Shipton, 1995), p. 287. </span></p> | |Sources=<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Nicholas Gilman papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, as cited in <span style="text-decoration: underline;">New England Life in the Eighteenth Century</span> (Clifford K. Shipton, 1995), p. 287. </span></p> | ||
|Comment=<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Brian Turner notes that this find "pushes back the earliest reference to bat & ball, banned in Salem in the 1760s, by 30-odd years | |Comment=<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Brian Turner notes that this find "pushes back the earliest reference to bat & ball, banned in Salem in the 1760s (see [[1762.2]], by 30-odd years. And it came more than two decades before a reference in a 1750s French & Indian war diary of Benjamin Glazier of </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Ipswich."</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><br /></span></p> | ||
<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Gilman was from a leading family of New Hampshire, mainly centered in Exeter, a bit inland from Portsmouth, where Elwyn gave a description of 1810's "bat & ball," in which he certainly seems to name a specific game. Seccomb, also spelled Seccomb, was born and lived in Medford, Mass., and later in life wound up in Nova Scotia -- not because he was a Loyalist but for other reasons.</span></p> | <p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;">Gilman was from a leading family of New Hampshire, mainly centered in Exeter, a bit inland from Portsmouth, where Elwyn gave a description of 1810's "bat & ball," in which he certainly seems to name a specific game. Seccomb, also spelled Seccomb, was born and lived in Medford, Mass., and later in life wound up in Nova Scotia -- not because he was a Loyalist but for other reasons.</span></p> | ||
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At Harvard, 1729, in a letter dated March 30 from John Seccomb to Nicholas Gilman: “The Batchelors Play Batt & Ball mightily now adays which Stirs our bloud greatly” |
Sources | Nicholas Gilman papers, Massachusetts Historical Society, as cited in New England Life in the Eighteenth Century (Clifford K. Shipton, 1995), p. 287. |
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Comment | Brian Turner notes that this find "pushes back the earliest reference to bat & ball, banned in Salem in the 1760s (see 1762.2, by 30-odd years. And it came more than two decades before a reference in a 1750s French & Indian war diary of Benjamin Glazier of Ipswich." Gilman was from a leading family of New Hampshire, mainly centered in Exeter, a bit inland from Portsmouth, where Elwyn gave a description of 1810's "bat & ball," in which he certainly seems to name a specific game. Seccomb, also spelled Seccomb, was born and lived in Medford, Mass., and later in life wound up in Nova Scotia -- not because he was a Loyalist but for other reasons. Edit with form to add a comment |
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