🔴 🏴 How the English Named New England
Explorer John Smith named New England. He sailed to the coast of what was then called Northern Virginia from Chesapeake Bay. Smith mapped it, using his version of Indian names, but he didn’t like Northern Virginia. He didn’t like the other names people had called it either, like Norumbega, Nuskoncus, Penaquida and Canada.
Smith hit on “New England” and wrote a book about his travels there, with a map. The book sold well. Six years later, King James granted the land in a charter in which he wrote, “The name shall be called by the name New England in America.”
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/how-the-english-named-new-england/
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I do not know the answer to that question. It would be interesting to find out the answer.
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It is a bit weird New England’s name didn’t get changed when the United States got independent. But I suppose that would have mean renaming most of the “New X” places.