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NYC Press Cites Regular Monday Cricket Matches Again

Salience Noteworthy
Tags Pre-Knicks NYC, US cricket clubs
City/State/Country: New York, NY, United States
Game Cricket
Immediacy of Report Contemporary
Age of Players Adult
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A cricket match is advertised to be played on this day, and continued every Monday throughout the summer, "on the Ground where the late Reviews were, near the Jews Burying Ground."

 

Sources

I. N. Phelps Stokes, The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : compiled from original sources (New York, Robert H. Dodd), 1926), Volume V, page 1111, also citing New York Mercury, June 19, 1780.

Comment

Regular Monday matches had been noted in the previous summer: see Chronology entry 1779.1 

The "Jews Burying Ground" refers to the first burial ground of the Shearith Israel Congregation, which existed 1683-1828. It was located at 55 St. James Place, near modern Chatham Square in Chinatown. [ba]

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