Cornwall County Cricket Club in St Austell. The first recorded mention of cricket in Cornwall is an advertisement in the Sherborne Mercury on 18 June 1781 for the sale of cattle at St Teath, near Camelford. The advertisement was dated 14 June 1781 and signed by Nathaniel Long and finished with a note, viz "The evening of the same day will be circketed for a very handsome silver-laced hat." According to Bowen (1970) a county organisation is known to have existed in 1813 and the first cricket club in Cornwall was known as the Cornish Cricket Club of Truro. The club moved to a
Cornwall County, Province of New York Dutch capture of New York in August 1673 as a result of the Third Anglo-Dutch War, claimed of the Duke of York’s territory east of the Kennebec River in present day Maine, including the Pemaquid settlement, and established a new county there. On May 27, 1674, this county was named Devonshire. Cornwall was implicitly reduced to the area north of the Massachusetts claim. Cornwall and Devonshire were lost to the Abnaki Indians in a war in the Autumn of 1675. Cornwall County was recreated on November 1, 1683, conforming to the original grant, still part of New York. Cornwall continued