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Doctor in DE Recalls His "Youthfull Folley": Includes Ball-playing
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City/State/Country: | Cannon's Ferry, DE, United States |
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Text | "My sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth yeares were spent in youthfull folley. Fidling, frolicking, ball playing and hunting . . . . These are called inocent amusements and were not caried very far by me." -- Future Doctor William Morgan. |
Sources | Hancock, Harold B., ed., "William Morgan's Autobiography and Diary: Life in Sussex County, 1780 - 1857," Delaware History, volume 19, number 1 [Spring/Summer 1980], pp. 43 - 44. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel Enough to Play Ball," reprinted in David Block, Baseball Before We Knew It, page 246 and ref # 84. |
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1790s.1 Doctor in DE Recalls His "Youthfull Folley": Includes Ball-playing"
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