Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1897-04-27
M0NAROHIAL NAMES.
Traces of British Rule Found in Sew
eral States.

LII OlS VI Tic paragraphs Vi J16
Declaration of independence the
signers declare that ''the patient suf-
ferance Of the American colonies" at
last CONSTANTS them to alter their
former systems Of government"
Along with the alteration there was
in many of the states, and more par
ticularly in the New England states,
complete change of geographical
designations consonant with the
change from monarchical to republic
an government.
In most of the original states no
trace was retained of the titles of
royalty or aristocracy such as con-
gress endeavored to do away with in
prohibiting the acceptance of any
such title from "any king, prince or
foreign state" But, Notwithstanding
this, monarchical titles have survived
in some of the original states. New
York conspicuously among them.
There are in New York, for instance,
as everybody knows, Kings county
and a Queens county, both on Long
Island; and there is, moreover, Dutch
ess (Duchess) county on the Hudson
river line and Richmond county to
the south. There is a Dukes county
in Massachusetts,, and in Virginia, the
most populous of the original states
at the time of the Declaration of In
dependence, there are King George
county, a King William county, a
King and Queen county, Prince Ed
ward county, a Princess Anne county,
York and Lancaster counties and an
Elizabeth City county. There are a
Prince Georges county and Queen
Anne's county in Maryland, and
Pennsylvania has York and Lancas-
ter counties, but no nearer approach
to monarchical names. In the ex-
treme south and southwest may be
found King counties (there was a
vice president named King), but no
Kings county as in this vicinity. One
of the largest of the counties of Wash
ington state, the county which in
cludes the city of Seattle, is King
county, and one of the smallest of the
counties of Texas, with population
of less than 200 by the last federal
census, is King county, too. But there
is no Queen or Queens county in
either state, and the same is true
of California, which has, however, a
Kings county, the other designations
of geographical divisions being to
great extent Spanish. There is no
King or Queen county in New Jersey
and no monarchical designations of
counties in any of the New England |
states with the one exception named, !
in Massachusetts. But Dukes county,
this exception, does not amount to |
consisting of some islands to
the south of Buzzard's bay and not |
on the mainland of New England. |
New York would appear to be the
state in which there has been the
closest adhesion to the names of row.
atty, for Kingston Kings town., in
in 1872, retained its origi-
nal name without any change such as
some towns make on reaching the
dignity of chartered cities, and there
are, moreover, Kingsbury and
Queensbury, both north Of Kingston,
and a Georgetown, and there was, up
% few years ago, Kingsbridge in
what is now the northern district of
New York, and there is still Kings
highway to the south of Brooklyn
and another in Richmond county. In
the western states there are no mon
designations, and, generally
speaking, the achievements of patri-
otto Americans are more generally
1orpetuated there than is the case in
he original ates-N. Y. Sun.
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