New Connecticut

English Proper noun New Connecticut en Connecticut Western Reserve. en https://www.google.com/books?id=_z4EAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA359 The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine Religious Intelligence 476166715 1801 March 1 9 359 New Connecticut, or the Western Reserve, is formed into a county by the name of Trumbull. en https://archive.org/details/ohiogazetteerort1816kilb/page/28 The Ohio Gazetteer 2nd John Kilbourn Smith & Griswold Columbus 2489812 1816 28–29 Connecticut Reserve, oftentimes called New Connecticut, is situated in the northeastern quarter of the state, between lake Erie on the north; Pennsylvania east, the parallel of the 41st degree of north latitude south, and the meridian of 5 degrees 49 minutes of west longitude on the west. New Connecticut is subdivided into the seven counties of Ashtabula, Trumbull, Portage, Geauga, Cuyahoga, Medina, and Huron: and is principally settled by emigrants from the states of Massachusetts and Connecticut. en https://archive.org/details/journaloftourthr00hawl/page/53 A Journal of a Tour Zerah Hawley S. Converse New Haven 12632346 1822 1821 53 Wrightsbury is situated on Lake Erie, West of Ashtabula. In this township is the best finished dwelling-house I have seen in New-Connecticut, being painted white without, and all the rooms nicely plastered, and painted. en https://books.google.com/books?id=DnjRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA182 Old and New New Englanders Bluford Adams University of Michigan Press Ann Arbor 9780472052080 2014 182 In a self-conscious reenactment of their Puritan ancestors, bands of New Englanders, usually from the same town, established new towns in New Connecticut such as Oberlin, Tallmadge, and Hudson. en Vermont. en https://archive.org/details/collvermont01montrich/page/40 Collections of the Vermont Historical Society The Westminster Convention of January 15, 1777 Vermont Historical Society Montpelier 1042127568 1777 1870 1 40–41 do hereby proclaim and publicly declare that the district of territory comprehending and usually known by the name and description of the New Hampshire Grants, of right ought to be, and is hereby declared forever hereafter to be considered as a separate, free and independent jurisdiction or state; by the name, and forever hereafter to be called, known and distinguished by the name of New Connecticut 14th. Voted, That Doct. Jonas Fay, Colo Thomas Chittenden, Doct. Reuben Jones, Colo Jacob Bailey, and Capt. Heman Allen be the Delegates to carry the remonstrance and Petition to the Honble Continental Congress, and further to negociate Business in behalf of New Connecticut. en https://www.google.com/books?id=qFEYOPQ9LqMC&pg=PA347 A History of the People of the United States 1 John Bach McMaster New York D. Appleton & Co. 5188011 1883 1924 347 The independence of New Connecticut was soon after acknowledged by New Hampshire. en https://archive.org/details/vermontwildernes00dext/page/96 Vermont: Wilderness to Statehood, 1748-1791 Warren W. Dexter; Barbara C. Hanson Academy Books Rutland 0914960717 1989 96 In the months following the January Convention, discussions in the various towns in New Connecticut were generally pro-independent, but there was a core of towns around Brattleboro which, for a time, viewed the stance of independence as foolish and advocated a retention of the ties with New York. Usage notes This name was only officially used for Vermont between January and June 1777.