New Connecticut

English

Proper noun

New Connecticut

1. Synonym of Connecticut Western Reserve.
   • 1801 March, “Religious Intelligence”, in The Connecticut Evangelical Magazine, volume 1, number 9, →OCLC, page 359:

     New Connecticut, or the Western Reserve, is formed into a county by the name of Trumbull.

   • 1816, John Kilbourn, The Ohio Gazetteer, 2nd edition, Columbus: Smith & Griswold, →OCLC, pages 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.

   • 1822 [1821], Zerah Hawley, A Journal of a Tour […] , New Haven: S. Converse, →OCLC, page 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.

   • 2014, Bluford Adams, Old and New New Englanders, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 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.

2. Former name of Vermont.
   • 1777, “The Westminster Convention of January 15, 1777”, in Collections of the Vermont Historical Society, volume 1, Montpelier: Vermont Historical Society, published 1870, →OCLC, pages 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 […]
     14^th. Voted, That Doct. Jonas Fay, Col^o Thomas Chittenden, Doct. Reuben Jones, Col^o Jacob Bailey, and Capt. Heman Allen be the Delegates to carry the remonstrance and Petition to the Hon^ble Continental Congress, and further to negociate Business in behalf of New Connecticut.

   • 1883, John Bach McMaster, A History of the People of the United States, volume 1, New York: D. Appleton & Co., published 1924, →OCLC, page 347:

     The independence of New Connecticut was soon after acknowledged by New Hampshire.

   • 1989, Warren W. Dexter, Barbara C. Hanson, Vermont: Wilderness to Statehood, 1748-1791, Rutland: Academy Books, →ISBN, page 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.