The first recorded cricket match on the ground came in 1955 when E. W. Swanton's XI played Bermuda.
A respected biography of Swanton by David Rayvern Allen published shortly after his death revealed many previously unknown facts about his life.
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He was a large baby and known as Jim, a diminutive of "Jumbo", from his earliest years.
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He made his selections as one of the voters for the Wisden Cricketers of the Century in 2000, shortly before he died of heart failure in Canterbury.
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A Hitchiti informant to anthropologist John R. Swanton pronounced the name "Oetcotukni", and translated it as "where there is a pond of water", likely referring to a defunct beaver pond.
Anthropologist John R. Swanton agrees with James Mooney, Hale, Bushnell and other scholars that the Saponi were probably the same as the Monasuccapanough, a people mentioned as tributary to the Monacans by John Smith in 1608.
Skaay could neither read nor write, but his stories of Haida mythology have survived in the form of written transcriptions taken down by John Swanton with the aide of Henry Moody over the winter of 1900.
John R. Swanton published definitive works in 1908 and 1910 that removed all doubt based on primarily historical rather than linguistic grounds.
According to the ethnographer, John R. Swanton, the Waccamaw may have been one of the first mainland groups of Natives visited by the Spanish explorers in the 16th century.