This distinguished local team was one of four clubs organized in 1907. The team members were all of Cape Verdian descent and came to America knowing how to play.
Cricket! Hathaway's Portuguese Cricket Club where team members, all from Sao Vicente, Cape Verde, which was home to a British coaling station! Source found along with a photo in Spinner Publication's newly released A Picture History of New Bedford Volume One 1602-1925...
The Quaker leadership of New Bedford founded a mutual savings bank for everyday working folk who'd hide their money in a mattress, in a can in the back yard or wherever!
The New Bedford Institute for Savings opened in 1825 and served as this area's largest saving's institution until the frenzied merger mania of recent years!