The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-06-21

Quinctuckquct. This explanation rests
upon the authority Of DR., Trumbull.
The Territory of New York was com
prsed irzthe royal grant to the Duke Of
York in 1864, of all the land "from the
west side of the Connecticut river TO the
east side of the Delaware Bay In 1864
the Duke fitted out An expedition which
took possession of New Amsterdam, and
the place was thereafter called New
York. in honor Of the Duke. The same
name was applied to the State. BY n
strange caprice OF history the greatest
State in the Union bears the name OF
the last and most tyrancal ofthe Stuarts.
The State of New Jersey, granted by
the Duke of York to Sir George Carteret
and Lord Berkeley in 1864, received its
name in the grant in commemoration OF
the brave defence Of the Isle Of Jersey
by Cartcret, IFS Governor. against the
Parliamentary forces in the great Civil
War.
Pennsylvania owes its name TO its
founder, William Penn. The name Civ
en- by Penn himself was Sylvania, but
King Charles II insisted that the name
of Penn should be prefXed, 1t is the
only State in the Union named after its
founder.
The counties of Newcastle, Kent, and
Sussex upon Delaware granted by
the Duke of York to Penn in 1852, were
known rs the territories Of Peunsyl-
vania. In l10l Penn granted them a
certain autonomy The State was named
after the bay ofthat name, and the bay
after Lord De-la-war, who explored it,.
II has been claimed that the bay and
river were named after the Delaware In
dans. who in 1900 dwet upon their
shores. This claim is unfoundcd. The
Delaware name of the river was Lena
pchttuk, meaning Lenape river.
Maryland was settled under charter
granted in 1852 by King Charles / tc
Lord Baltimore The State was named
after Queen Henrietta Maria. In the
charter the country is called "Yerra
Mario -Anglice, Maryland.
The first step in the colonization Of
America by England was the charter
granted in 1854 by Queen Elizabeth to
Sir Walter Raleigh Under this charter
Raleigh took possession Of the country
west OF the Roanoke, and called it Vir-
ginia in honor Of the Virgin Queen.
This is the only State in the Union whose
name appears in literature associated
with the royal title. Spenser dedicated
the Faerie Qucene to Elizabeth, by the
grace of God, Quecne of England, France
and Ireland. and Of Virginia The
nearest approach to thi. in a public act
is the order of the English Priyy Coun-
ell to the Virginia colony after the revo-
| luton OF 1858 to proclaim William and
Mary as Lord and Lady of Virginia
The name Of West Virginia. a new
State formed within the jurisdiction of
Virginia, needs no separate considera-
ton.
North Carolina and South Carolina
may be considered under one head.
Allen. in his History Of Kentucky"
ascmbes the origin Of the name Carolina
20 the French settlers Of Port ROYAL. who
named if after Charles TX. Of France.
This is the popular impression, but there
is reason 10 question its accuracy. In
the charter OF Carolina granted to the
Lords Proprletors by Charles II. in 1868,
the name Carolina is recognized. Moro
than thirty years before. Charles I. had
granted tract of territory south Of the
Chesapeake to Sir Robert Heath. nam
ing it Carolana after himself. This
grant became forfeited by non-user
The name, however, so given to the ter.
rltory was doubtless revived in the new
charter Of 1868 It would not be a
pleasant reelection that two States Of the
Union derived their namefrom the King
who commanded the massacre Of st.
Bartholomew
The name Of Georgia, after King
George H., was blythe of the char
ter conferred upon the territory granted
to the company organized by Oglethorpe
in 1892.
Maine owes its name TO It's being sup
posed 20 be the main or chief portion of
the New England territory The origin
of the name is disclosed in an extract
from the grant Of Charles l. to Sir Fer
nando Georges, in 1859, conlirmatory Of
a patent given bv the Plymouth Com
pany in 1922, which grant the grandson
Of Georges, through John Usher, assigned
to the Massachusetts Bay Colony "aIl
that Paur, Purparte and Porcon Of the
Mayne Iande Of New England afore-
said, beginning att the entrance Of Pas
galway Harbor Then follows the de-
>cription, all which said Part, Purpart
or Porcon Of the Mayne Lande and all
and every the premises hereinbefore
named wee doe for us, our heirs aud
successors create and incorporate into
one Province or Counte. And wee doe
name, ordeyne and appoint that the
Porcon of the Wayne Lande and Prem
ses atorcsaIde shall forever hereafter
bee called and named The Province or
CuUntie of Maynp'
The Territory OF Vermont was so
named from The French words yerd
mont, Green Mountain. the I'd" being
dropped in composition The legal his
tory of the name is curious one Alta
convention Of the people held at West
Minister, January Is, III, it was de-
clared that the district was a State, go
be forever hereafter called, known and
distinguished by the name Of New Con-
necticut, alias Vermont" The conyen.
ton met by adjournment July 2, l777.
and, having IN lhemeantimea Sccrlained
that the name Of New Connections had