2 Winthrop, “Experiencia,” Writings, I, 201-2.

3 Nancy Struna, “Puritans and Sport,” JSPH 2 (1977), 1-21; this important essay demonstrates the error of the oft-repeated idea that “persons inclined to Puritanism were fundamentally hostile to sportive play.” See also idem, “Sport and Social Values: Massachusetts,” Quest 27 (1977), 40; Winton Solberg, Redeem the Time: The Puritan Sabbath in Early America (Cambridge, Mass., 1977), 49.

4 Struna, “Puritans and Sport,” 6; Benjamin Wadsworth, Good Soldiers a Great Blessing (Boston, 1700).

5CSMP 3 (1935), 330-33.

6 Shipton, Harvard Graduates, IV, 522.