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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:&nbsp; &ldquo;The Batchelors Play Batt &amp; Ball mightily now adays which Stirs our bloud greatly&rdquo; </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:&nbsp; &ldquo;The Batchelors Play Batt &amp; Ball mightily now adays which Stirs our bloud greatly&rdquo; </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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</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.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>
|Comment=<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Brian Turner notes that this find "pushes back the earliest reference to bat &amp; ball, banned in Salem in the 1760s, by 30-odd years, and by 20-odd years the reference in a 1750s French &amp; 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>
|Comment=<p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Brian Turner notes that this find "pushes back the earliest reference to bat &amp; ball, banned in Salem in the 1760s (see [[1762.2]], by 30-odd years.&nbsp; And it came more than two decades before a&nbsp;reference in a 1750s French &amp; 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 &amp; ball," in which he certainly seems to name a specific game. &nbsp;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 &amp; ball," in which he certainly seems to name a specific game. &nbsp;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”

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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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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.

 

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