In Charlestown in 1836

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Date of Game	1836
Location	Charlestown, MA, United States
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Field	Add Field Page McLean Asylum
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Description	The Auburn NY Journal and Advertiser, Jan. 17, 1838 prints a letter from a traveler to Boston, who says that at the McLean Asylum in Charlestown, "the males are engaged in playing at bowls, quoits, base ball, ..." A report of "bass ball" at the McLean Asylum in Charlestown, MA, published in the Boston Messenger, March 9, 1837. See Chronologies 1838.9. The 1836 report of the Massachusetts General Hospital (same place) p. 14 reports that the male patients "are engaged at bowls, quoits, bass-ball..." This asylum for the insane was well known. This part of Charlestown became part of Somerville in 1842.
Sources	The Auburn NY Journal and Advertiser, Jan. 17, 1838 See also Chronologies 1838.9
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Found by	Bruce Allardice
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Entered by	Bruce Allardice
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