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|Headline=Dutch Prohibit "Playing Ball," Cricket on Sundays in New Netherlands. | |Headline=Dutch Prohibit "Playing Ball," Cricket on Sundays in New Netherlands. | ||
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|Game=Cricket | |Game=Cricket | ||
|Tags=Bans,Pre-Knicks | |Tags=Bans,Pre-Knicks |
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Dutch Prohibit "Playing Ball," Cricket on Sundays in New Netherlands.
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Text | In October 1656 Director-General Peter Stuyvesant announced a stricter Sabbath Law in New Netherlands, including fine of a one pound Flemish for "playing ball," cricket, tennis, ninepins, dancing, drinking, etc. Source: 13: Doc Hist., Volume Iv, pp.13-15, and Father Jogues' papers in NY Hist. Soc. Coll., 1857, pp. 161-229, as cited in Manual of the Reformed Church in America (Formerly Ref. Prot. Dutch Church), 1628-1902, E. T. Corwin, D.D., Fourth Edition (Reformed Church in America, New York, 1902.) Provided by John Thorn, email of 2/1/2008. Note: It would be useful to ascertain what Dutch phrase was translated as "playing ball," and whether the phrase denotes a certain type of ballplay. The population of Manhattan at this time was about 800 [were there enough resident Englishmen to sustain cricket?], and the area was largely a fur trading post. Is it possible that the burghers imported this text from the Dutch homeland? |
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