The state of Connecticut was named for the Connecticut River. The word Connecticut is an English version of an Algonquian word meaning "long tidal river".
It was not named after any person. "Connecticut" is the English transliteration of the Native American Mohegan tribe's name for the area: "Quinnehtukqu", meaning "Long River Place".
Connecticut is named after the river that bears that name. The word in Mohican means 'long tidal river'. It runs through four states.
Means: long river that runs through
Roger Sherman found it
Hartford became the capital of Connecticut Colony in 1662, and then became the state capital of Connecticut after the American Revolution. It was the largest city in Connecticut colony when it was named the capital.
Connecticut is nicknamed the Constitution State as well as the Nutmeg State. Connecticut is named after the Connecticut River, a major U.S. river that approximately bisects the state. Its capital city is Hartford.
Connecticut. Your welcome.
The Connecticut Charter was the agreement with the king and Parliment that set the laws, punishments etc. for the colony of Connecticut.
They were mostly farmers in Connecticut and had some indentured slaves.
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Hartford became the capital of Connecticut Colony in 1662, and then became the state capital of Connecticut after the American Revolution. It was the largest city in Connecticut colony when it was named the capital.
Actually, it wasn't named after SOMEBODY, it was named after a city in Connecticut. Lyme, Connecticut in 1975.Children usually got arthritis, and the disease eventually infected the skin, joints, nervous system, and, if untreated, other organs.
The famous Connecticut city is Trumbull, named for George Washington's advisor and Connecticut governor Jonathan Trumbull (1710-1785). It was divided from Stratford in 1797.
The man who started the Connecticut colony was named Reverend Thomas Hooker. The state was founded in 1635 to 1636.
I'm guessing its in Connecticut since there capitol is named Hardvard.
A guy named Rachid Dwyer
Connecticut was founded as a colony in 1662, although there were settlements as early as the 1630's, led by a man named Thomas Hooker.
Connecticut River
Danbury Connecticut later named ludingtonville
The leader of the colony was a man named Steve Burton.