New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-08

lier-during the half century before the Revolu-
ton 40 per cent of her towns took names bearing
an aristocratic or royal SAVIOR. By contrast Con-
necticut, among all her les towns, has only one
township. that of Somers. in Toand County, in
the same British category-and that town was in
corporated by Massach in 1874 and set off to
Connecticut in the adjustment Of a boundary cues
ton In a comparison Of the Connecticut nomen-
clature with the town names of Rhode Island. with
her Kingston, Charlestown Richmond. jamestown
and Exeter. the same contrast may be noted From
her Colonial county names also Connecticut has
excluded consistently any titles smacking OF 10y
atty TO the throne. This difference between Con-
necticut and her two adjacent sister States New
England is accidental 1t implies what history
confirms, the later settlement of Connecticut when
the parliamentary contest in England with the
throne had waxed bitter; the settlement Of
the two colonies of Connecticut and New-Haven
by men of the middle class to the common
wealth than to the king and deeply infused with
Puritan dogma and deed and what later loyalty
might have been stirred by the liberal Connecti-
cut charter OF King Charles II in 1862 had it's after
antidote in irritating fuitless raid in 1857
upon that venerated document by Andres
To somers ought. perhaps, TO be added Old Say
brook and Saybrook a. towns that trace their
names to aristocratc origin in Lords Say and
Brooke-but in this those noblemen
actual and active promoters of the settlement.
OF the remaining 1G5 townships Of the State sixty
one take their names from English other foreign
localities; tWentyeight from persons; thirty-tour
from American localities. OF them in Con-
necticut-as when New-A1ilford is derived from
Milford, in ancestral times called Old Milford;
thirty from natural situation; two from Indian
names and eight from the Bible, one two towns
being left in doubt.
The town names furnish some interesting and
curious forms Of derivation Harwinton. made
up from syables OF Hartford. Windsor and Farm
ington Voluntown, from lands granted to the
volunteer soldiers in the with King Philip;
Chatham. the Connecticut River. ambitious at
her settlement rival the shipyards and docks Of
her English sponsor; Sufield derived from origi-
nal Southheld. named from her physical rela-
ton TO Springfield. Mass; Ansona, from Arson G.
Phelps whose family name has renewed itself I'm
The prominent Stokes family and Lebanon. from
her Scriptural cedars. The little township of Boz
rah. I'm New-London County. has a unique story
of its AS the tale goes. the inhabitants asked
for the name Bath and sent 70 the General As
sembly a committee which appeared before the law
makers in homespun dyed of strange hue. There
upon a legislator and asked In Scriptural
phrase. "Who Is q that cometh from Edom with
dyed garments from Bozrath?" and the committee
took unwilllngly the latter title home. Following
the analogy of Harwinton in the OF consider
allie places but not towns. may be cited Winsted
formed from Winchester and Barkhamstead; Had
lyme. from Haddam and Lyme, and the old VIII
laGe OF Stratfeld. Bridgeport. from Stratford
and Fairfield Students interested in the transfer