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  • #REDIRECT [[Middleton's Season in the Sun: The Story of Connecticut's First Professional Baseball Team]]
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  • #REDIRECT [[Middleton's Season in the Sun: The Story of Connecticut's First Profefssional Baseball Team]]
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  • |Title=Wicket Club, Connecticut, 1890 |Source Image=Wicket Club, Connecticut, 1890.jpg
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  • ...1778," <u>Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society</u>, volume 7 Connecticut Historical Society, 1899, pp. 353 - 354. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place L
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  • ...cription=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Aug. 3, 1867: "Connecticut News...Dutton of Litchfield and Dexter of Windsor played base ball at the l |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Aug. 3, 1867</p>
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  • ...1778," <u>Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society</u>, volume 7 (Connecticut Historical Society, 1899), p. 117. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leavel
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  • |Description=<p>Arcidiacono, "Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut" says early games were played south of the Hospital. This would be about ol |Sources=<p>Arcidiacono, "Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut" p. 24</p>
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  • {{All Fields|Country=US|State=Connecticut}}
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  • {{Firsts|Country=US|State=Connecticut}}
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  • {{All Clubs|Country=US|State=Connecticut}}
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  • {{All Games|Country=US|State=Connecticut}}
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  • {{All Fields|Country=United States|State=Connecticut}}
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  • {{All Games|Country=United States|State=Connecticut}}
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  • {{All Clubs|Country=United States|State=Connecticut}}
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  • {{Firsts|Country=United States|State=Connecticut}}
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  • {{All Predecessor Games|Country=US|State=Connecticut}}
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  • {{All Predecessor Games|Country=United States|State=Connecticut}}
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  • {{Location|Country=US|State=Connecticut|Coordinates=41.6032207, -73.087749}}
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  • |Title=Middleton's Seaason in the Sun: The Story of Connecticut's First Profefssional Baseball Team
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  • ...on such occasions, did not at this time wholly abandon the ancient uses of Connecticut."</p>
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  • |Description=From Windsor Historical Society, Windsor, Connecticut |Pic Location=Connecticut
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  • |Description=<p>The Hartford <em>Connecticut Courant</em>, March 31, 1866: "The Excelsior Base Ball Club has been organi |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, March 31, 1866</p>
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  • |Description=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Nov. 3, 1870, reports on the state baseball convention. Among |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Nov. 3, 1870</p>
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  • ...cription=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Aug. 3, 1867: "Connecticut News...Dutton of Litchfield and Dexter of Windsor played base ball at the l |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Aug. 3, 1867</p>
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  • ...ndash; 1778," Collections of the Connecticut Historical Society, volume 7 [Connecticut Historical Society, 1899, pp. 353 - 354. Per Altherr, ref # 27.
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  • |Description=<p>The Hartford <em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Aug. 24, 1867, reports that on Monday the Charter Oaks club o |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Aug. 24, 1867</p>
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  • |Description=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Sept. 15, 1866: "The young men of Rockville have organized a |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Sept. 15, 1866</p>
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  • |Name=176th New York Infantry v 9th Connecticut Infantry in 1864 |Away Team=9th Connecticut Infantry
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  • |Description=<p>The Hartford <em>Connecticut Courant</em>, March 29, 1866: "State matters. Two base ball clubs are to be |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, March 29, 1866</p>
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  • |State=Connecticut |Text=<p>The <em>Connecticut Courant</em>, April 23, 1853, has a description of Long Ball: "Reader, did
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  • |Description=<p>The Hartford <em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Sept. 28, 1865: "State Matters. Wolcottville. A very interest |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Sept. 28, 1865</p>
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  • |Description=<p>The Hartford <em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Aug. 24, 1867, under the headline "Junior Championship" repor |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Aug. 24, 1867</p>
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  • |Location=Connecticut, ...tion: underline;">Bristol</span> <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Connecticut</span> (City Printing Co., Hartford, 1907), pages 295-296. Available via Go
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  • |Description=<p>Arcidiacono, "Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut" p. 24 says early baseball in New Haven was played on a lot on Elm St. near |Sources=<p>Arcidiacono, "Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut" p. 24</p>
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  • ...tz (email of 2/5/2021) notes that, according to an article in the&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant,&nbsp;</em>April 23, 1853, was locally the name of something like a <p><em>Connecticut Courant</em>, April 23, 1853.</p>
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  • ...ut Herald</em>,&nbsp;May 20, 1834, Page 1). Results posted in both the <em>Connecticut Courant</em> and the <em>Independent Press</em> on May 26, 1834.</p>
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  • ...nal of her ride from Boston to New York in 1704, speaks of ball-playing in Connecticut."</p> ...ine;">Papers and Addresses of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Volume II of the Proceedings of the Society</span><em>,</em> [n. p., 1909.
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  • |Location=Connecticut, ...ricket]. This was clearly demonstrated during a wicket match at Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1860 when a team of local wicket players easily defeated a team of expe
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  • |Description=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Sept. 9, 1865: "Kent has organized a base ball club, with the |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Sept. 9, 1865</p>
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  • <p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Nov. 9, 1867, reports on the 2nd state baseball convention. A |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Nov. 9, 1867;&nbsp;The Springfield [MA]&nbsp;<em>Republican</
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  • |Description=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Sept. 28, 1865: "State Matters. Wolcottville. A very interest |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Sept. 28, 1865</p>
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  • |Description=<p>The Hartford <em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Sept. 9, 1871, under the heading "State News" reports that th |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Sept. 9, 1871</p>
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  • <p>Arcidiacono, "Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut" says this club was formed May 14, 1858.</p> <p>Arcidiacono, "Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut"</p>
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  • ...was settled from Connecticut, the game was taken along. Our member [of the Connecticut Society of Colonial War], Professor Thomas Day Seymour of Yale, tells me th ...ine;">Papers and Addresses of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut, Volume II of the Proceedings of the Society</span><em>,</em> (n. p., 1909.
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  • |Text=<p>Jabez Fitch, an officer from Connecticut, noted in March 1777, as a prisoner in British-held New York: "we lit [sic] ...>The New York Diary of Lieutenant Jabez Fitch of the 17<sup>th</sup>&nbsp;(Connecticut) Regiment from August 22, 1776 to December 15, 1777</span>&nbsp;[private pr
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  • |Description=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Nov. 11, 1865: "Plantsville--The young men of this place have |Sources=<p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Nov. 11, 1865</p>
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  • |Description=<p>The <em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Aug. 21, 1858 under the headline "Wicket at Waterbury," repor |Sources=<p>The&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Aug. 21, 1858</p>
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  • ...as that brought by Phil. Baker of the National club. It was invented by a Connecticut genius. (St. Louis)</p>
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  • |Additional Information=Reprinted in Bristol Connecticut, City Printing Company, Hartford, 1907
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  • |Location=Connecticut, |Comment=<p>Washington, Connecticut (2000 census about 3,600) is about 40 miles W of Hartford, and about 15 mil
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  • |Title=1859 -- State Championship Wicket Game in Connecticut: A Hearty Hurrah for a Doomed Pastime
    353 bytes (47 words) - 07:31, 28 July 2019
  • |Title=Litchfield and the Old Connecticut Game of Wicket
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  • |Book=Papers and Addresses of the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Connecticut
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  • <p><i>Connecticut Courant</i>, volume 70, Issue 3618, page 3 (probably reprinted from the <i>
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  • ...the League has none, but Harry Wright will this year trot out a colt from Connecticut, named Warring, who, it is claimed, can pitch equally well with either hand
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  • |Title=Major League Baseball in Gilded Age Connecticut
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  • ...he nature of this game is unknown. It is found an 1849 chapbook printed in Connecticut: “there are a great number of games played with balls, of which base-ball
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  • ...eason now if they choose–that city being bound to have a champion team for Connecticut next season if money can get it.</p>
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  • |Title=the Mansfield, Connecticut grounds
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  • ...is exception -- we skinned the coons from top to stem.&nbsp; So, hurra for Connecticut!</p> |Query=<p>Can anyone make a guess at the meaning of "hurra for Connecticut" for a game played in the far north of NYS?&nbsp; Was the area known for it
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  • ...ey 1800 - 1840 from the Recollections of John Howard Redfield</span>&nbsp;(Connecticut River Museum, Essex CT, 1988), p. 35. Per Thomas L. Altherr, "A Place Leave
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  • |Text=<p>In Oct. 1862, while in camp near Lovettsville, the Twenty-First Connecticut "boys enjoyed a game of baseball.."</p>
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  • ...voted to the professional interest. Missouri, Massachussetts, New Jersey, Connecticut, Massachusetts and the District of Columbia, numbering ten votes, advocated ...l from Illinois, Pennsylvania and Indiana, five from new York and one from Connecticut.</p>
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  • |Sources=<p>Connecticut Courant: 10/21</p>
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  • |Location=Connecticut,
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  • ...absolutely do not assume that it was the same as the game associated with Connecticut."</p>
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  • |Sources=<p>Connecticut Courant: 8/20</p>
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  • |Sources=<p>Connecticut Courant: 8/3</p>
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  • ...play a Game of BOWL for a Dinner and Trimmings . . . on Friday next." <i>Connecticut Courant</i> , May 5, 1766, as cited in John A. Lester, <u>A Century of Phil
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  • ...te Association, five; Iron and Oil League, six; Keystone Association, six; Connecticut State League, six. Total clubs, seventy-one. By the terms of this agreeme
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  • ...articles that include a description of the game of wicket, described as a Connecticut game not seen in Brooklyn for about 25 years:</p> ...numbers 30 players instead of 111, as in cricket.&nbsp; The wickets of the Connecticut game are also different, , being about 5 feet wide and only 3 inches above
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  • |Description=<p>The Springfield [MA]&nbsp;<em>Republican</em>, May 15, 1867: "Connecticut...The Enfield base ball club was defeated by the Comet club of Thompsonvill
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  • ...ription=<p>The Springfield [MA]&nbsp;<em>Republican</em>, Sept. 11, 1867: "Connecticut. The Qui Vive base-ball club of Derby claims the fastest runner in the coun
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  • |Description=<p>The Springfield [MA] <em>Republican</em>, Sept. 11, 1867: "Connecticut...The Leader base ball club of Thompsonville defeated the Eagle Club of Win
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  • ...ent=<p>No other ballgames are carried in this dictionary. Webster was from Connecticut.</p>
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  • |Location=Connecticut,
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  • |Sources=<p>October 1, 1864 Connecticut Courant</p>
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  • ...ork State; fourteen from Pennsylvania; thirteen from New Jersey; four from Connecticut; four from Washington, D. C.; two from Massachusetts; and one each from Kan
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  • ...e presence of about three or four hundred spectators only, the trip of the Connecticut team to this city and Philadelphia this month not paying expenses, as their
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  • ...int: The United States Military Academy 1802 - 1902</u> [Praeger, Westport Connecticut, 1993], page 145. <b>Note:</b> Pappas evidently does not give a source for
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  • ...h won the championship of the read-guard, defeating some active nines from Connecticut and Massachusetts. For our regimental team I served as pitcher and I believ <p>&ldquo;We were winning a really beautiful game from the 13<sup>th</sup> Connecticut, a game in which our own pickets, who were the only spectators, found thems
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  • ...<span style="text-decoration: underline;">The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, from the Aboriginal Period to the Year 1895,</span> Volume III (Price and
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  • <p>The Hartford&nbsp;<em>Connecticut Courant</em>, Sept. 9, 1871, under the heading "State News" reports that th
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  • |Sources=<p>Edward Hooker, Diaries, 1805-1830: MS 72876 and 72877, Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford CT; per Thomas L. Altherr, "Chucking the Old A
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  • ...tyle="text-decoration: underline;">The Story of the Twenty-First Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry, During the Civil War. 1861-1865</span> (Stewart Printin
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  • ...rty_Hurrah_for_a_Doomed_Pastime">1859 -- State Championship Wicket Game in Connecticut: A Hearty Hurrah for a Doomed Pastime</a>."&nbsp; <span style="text-decorat
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  • |Title=the ball grounds in Norwich, Connecticut
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  • ..., "That Strange Yankee Game, Wicket,"&nbsp;<span>Bristol</span>&nbsp;<span>Connecticut</span>&nbsp;(City Printing Co., Hartford, 1907);&nbsp;available on Google B
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  • |Text=<p>"Connecticut lexicographer and writer Noah Webster may have been referring to a baseball
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  • ...grees of L L. B. And were afterward admitted to practise before the bar of Connecticut., quoting the Minneapolis Tribune</p>
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  • ...ears 1835 and 1836.&nbsp; This young man grew up to be a person of note in Connecticut but that is not what I am writing about.&nbsp; On the very first page of hi
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  • ...es=<p>(1) &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base Ball: New York Base Ball Players in Connecticut and Massachusetts: Marion, of New York, vs. Hancock, of Boston,&rdquo; <em>
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  • |Entry Origin Url=http://protoball.org/Games_Tab:Connecticut#date1859-10-17 ...es=<p>(1) &ldquo;Out-Door Sports: Base Ball: New York Base Ball Players in Connecticut and Massachusetts: Marion, of New York, vs. Tempest, of New Haven,&rdquo; <
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  • ...=<p>Local interest in wicket is seen has having crested in 1858 in western Connecticut. "Games were played annually with clubs from other towns in the state, and
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  • |Region=Connecticut | <p>(1) Fernando, “Out-Door Sports: Base-Ball: Base Ball in Connecticut,” <i>Porter’s Spirit of the Times,</i> vol. 6, no. 24 (13 Aug 1859), p.
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  • {{#arraydefine:exclusions|Comma Separated Values,Alabama,Brooklyn,CA,Connecticut,CT,England,Europe,France,Indiana,Hawaii,Kentucky,MA,Maine,Massachusetts,Mic ...tion}}{{#arraydefine:exclusions|Comma Separated Values,Alabama,Brooklyn,CA,Connecticut,CT,England,Europe,France,Greenland, Indiana,Hawaii,Kentucky,MA,Maine,Massac
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  • ...ttleboro VT (1860 pop. about 3,800)is in the SE corner of the state on the Connecticut River and about 10 miles N of the Massachusetts border.</p>
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  • ...after them. . . ." "Soon after, this blue law, perhaps the only one in the Connecticut Code, was repealed. Then the boys thought no more of playing on fast-days
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  • <p><em>Connecticut Mirror</em>, June 19, 1815, Page 2</p>
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  • <p>...the Mansfield Club, of Connecticut, a club which in March last was in the Amateur Convention, but which lately
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