New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 15, 1922, Page 30

BRONGIN, OF NANES CINTHIS VICINTY § b Hunes Shépard Makes Known In- {oresting Result of Research BY JAMES SHEPARD, A farming town was settled near INew Britain in the year 1640 and' given the Indlan name of Tunxis, aft- or the name of the river upon which' t was situated. The territory now jinown as New Britain and Kensing. Jon was then known only by the name bl Pagonchamischang. In the year) 1646 the Tunxis settlement was in sorporated as a town by the nume of V;‘nrmlm.-mn, ap . old English place i ibe. * There was at thot time only ihree’ othér inland plantations in this solony, viz: Hartford, Windsor, West- farafield. £ The change in the name of the, place” from Tunxis to Iarmington jventually causeq 2 like e¢hange in the| aame of the river and thus the name | (Munxis 1s now known only in history., e name Farmington s similar to that of fourtéen other Connecticut place names which differ from thag me only by the substitution of some bther word or syllable for the word | 'arm, “The list of lgt‘llt' place names i 88 Tollows: Abington, Burlington, | IJHnnon. Farmiagton, Huntington, krnlln‘ton. Millington, Newington, INorthington, Southington, Etonington, forrington, Washington, Willington ind - Worthington. - . 81% of " tHese places, viz: Northing- h; Burlington, Southington, Kensing- on, Worthingtonr and Newington were laken in‘whole or in part from the jown of IParmington. = Many of the )ld English place.names have become ‘hersonpl-names. I know that all of’ .he place namea in our lists except ‘l'm‘m[hktum Southington and Stoning- ‘o1 ‘have been so used and in many [’ascs towns have been named from a ?ernon bearing .2 place name, as for ixample, . Worthington. = The word -‘ton" in these names, signifies town, tity, .village, homestead or other real sldte belofighig' to oiié or more per- lons, The word don signifying a hiil, 5§ often used in the same connection, }\! h_general rule all names which erminate in either ton, or don, were iginally place names. § The Syllable “Ing.” The syllable ing is used in four dif- erent ways. Somctimes, in connec- don with, the: preceding word or syl- le, it forfas a word which'is de- g:lpt{ve«b! the. pldeetor town, as for lixample, theé word farming in the jame Farmington. Sometimes Ing Lighifies & meadow as in the name | Cepsington.; Whenoing is'the termin- lltion ‘of o personal’name it signifies he son of. When such a personal e 18 compounded: with the word, on or don the Ing signifies belonging i b, as for cxample,:in the following ame: Abington, Before making any paclal regearch’ it occurred to me b ig i contraction of Abe and 1 name: £ Abrgham and lence th nofiie signifies ‘a ‘town or Hace belonging to Abrahem. Upon & little research 1 discovered ~original of this old English nameswarsAbingdon dnstead of ot Jthat it signifies o hill | ‘naaed R T “‘famovg Wolf Den ‘Willgge or society of Abing-| Pomfret, wiich to- d and named in by the namg of Burlington, “The. . may be said to be deseriptive ‘burly rocks and hills or of the y nuts aud trees which once grev: great torest of the Wert Woods. | Century Atlas gives | y s by the name of Burling- | f { ‘which {8 now It in: ! 3 clety in 1735, The name 1is said to have been given med an. nding ! Tast | The English name Eiling- | the town of Ellls, ey -four. \gtons. X on is the name of thirty-' ¥ which may be found on ' the Century Atlas. 'The hamg and obviously signifies ‘a Hing town, R | n on was made a society by | Ripton in the vorth part | in 1717 alid inéorporatan by Its present name in the name i Eny and the towh was famed, Thir- by the name of Hunt: | in the index of the , to Newington in 1781, grist miil or saw mill, long Pond is #t the head of a deep gorge running through a dense forest which Is caled "Tihe Devil's Hop Yard." The name Mijlington, | some cases, may signify a milling town, If the strued us A meadow (he ngme would #iguify a town by the mdll meadow, If the pame is from a person named Mills or Milling, it would signify the town of the Millings, Newington Incorporated im 1713, Newlngton, our neighbor en.the east was Incorporated as a soclety tn 1718, by the pame. of \/est Hoclety In Wethersfield which naimo was changed The old socie- ty originally included a narrow . strip of land which s now in the northeast part of New Hritain, Newlugton s an Knglieh name and signifies the new tewn in the uu-ngow. Northington {8 the name of a socle- ty which was established In theé north part of Farmington In 1760, that part belng now In the town of Aven, The name is English but in this case (t 1s of loen) origin, "The mannor of nam- ing Southington In the south purt of Ilfarmington in the year 17:6, was fol- lowed and by the same intorpretution i North!ngton signifies a soclety in the north part of J'armington, . It Is the only name in our list which -has fallen into disuse, Southington, our neighbor on the southwest, was formerly known by the name of Panthorn. It is so referred to in A deed of land Ledaring the date of 1706, There is g tradition thaf w man’ fro.a Cheshire who drove ilg oxen to this plage sald thut “the placed wag 80 hot his oxen panted to the tip of their hornd.” A seciety was incor- porated in May, 1724, at “a place called Panthorn in the southwest part of FFarmington” without giving it any specific name, The sald soclety was | named Southingtoy in 1726. The name 1§ sald to have beeri'a construction of “South Karmington,” but it does not appear of record that thfs place was ever so called.” Tt s, however, fre- quently mentioned as "in the south or southwest part of KFarmington” and the name no doubt is a construction of that phrase. It signifies a socioty in the south part of Farmington. The Century Atlas of the World gives only gne other Southington and that is Southington, Ohio. The latter wap probably ni-ned by one or more per- sons from Hout'ington, Conn., who had settled in Ohio. Stonington In Massachusetts, Stonington was incorporated as a town by Massachusetts in the year 1658, and was under the government of that colony until Connecticut ob- tained a Royal Charter. The name signifies a stony town. A portion of the town was set off in 1740 as *‘Ston- ington North Society,” and is now a town called North Stonington. Torrington wad Incorporated as a soclety in 1739, and made a town by its present name in 1740, There were two villages in the town, Torringford and Wollcottville after Oliver Woll- cott.: The naije Wollgottville has fal- len into disuse but ‘that place is now'| the principal part of the fown. The name. Torrington is English and fs{ Falls, Pa. from the Gaelic word 'Torry, which signifies a conlcal hill, mountain or tower, hence Torrington signifies & town by the hills and mountains. Washington was established as a society in Qetober, 1740, by the name of Judea Soclety in Woodbury, The town was incorporated in 1779 by the! hame of th&nnon after General George. Washington, There are near- 1y 4 hundred "in' the United 3 SLEDS AND .| EXPRESS WAGONS % r ) ing be ean-| NEW. BRITAIN DAILY | e Btates which bear ¢he name Washing ton The of@ the Washington family In Englapd originally called Wossington q Wassington. 1t I8 dertved from the Word wels, mean- | g & wash, a creck setting in from | the sea, A person Hving by the wels was glven the name Weass. His de scendants were called Wessing = or | Wassing and the plhce was where they | lived was called Wessington or Waass- | ington, signifying the town the Wesslngs or Waasings or a place be- Wass, One authority states that| Wass s from hvass, an old Norec word, which signifies keen and bold. Willington was Inéorporated as a town ‘and soclety in May, 1720. The, land wns purchased In the your 1720 by elght mea from Wellington, Eog- | tand. Hence Willington Is a corrup- tion of Wellington und signifies the town of the Wellings, or the estato of *a perkon named Wells, Worthington, our neighbor on the southeast, wasd establighed as o soclety in 1772, when the Reusiggton society was divided, of Col. John Worthington, chalrman of the legislative committee, who fixed | the dividing line and pho sites for tiv two new meeting houses. Col. Worth- Ington's nhame is from an old English | place name which came from a person named Worth and signifies the town of the Worthings or an state belonging to & person named Worth. Worthing- ton, Ohlo, was settled by Connecticut peoplé many of whom were from this immediate vicinity. Their leader was the Rev, James Kilbourn, a native of New Britain, and the rector of Christ Church, Neéwington, from 1800 to 1803. The church bullding was near the northérn border line of the Kens- ington and Worthington socleties. The name Worthington wa# given by Mrp. Kilbourn to the Ohio settlement (in memory of his old Eplscopal parish in Connecticut. But Worthington is not the only Connecticut town in Ohio. It has & Farmington, Kensington, Plainville and Southington and threc ‘ different places by the name of Berlin. JOLE THOMPSON DECORATED, “Fighting Irishman” Gets Congres- sional Mgdal for Valor in France. ‘Washington, Dec. 15.—Joe Thomp- son, the “fighting Irishman’ who cap- tained the University of Pittsburgh football team in 1004-1905, and now is a lleutenant colonel in the reserve corps, was decorated = yesterday Major General Charles H. Muir with the Congressional Medal of Honor for valor and fighting qualities displayed in France with the Twenty-eighth division,’ The citation says that Major Thompson, in an eéngagement near Apremont, “rushed forward on foot three separate times in advance of the assaulting line, under heayy ma- | chine gun and antl-tank gun fire, and led the one remaining tank to within a few yards of the enemy maghine gun nest.” Thompson's home is -at Beayer ok PRACTICAL ADVICE. (From the Florida Times-Unlon.) ‘“Miss Sweete was always saying she wanted to be an angel and play on a harp.” g A “Yes, T have heard her.” “But T convinééd her it was better to remain on eavth a while longerand put on a phophone record when- ever she felt musically inclined.” I ' THE PEOPLES 1 TO 98c STORE i ‘Iunxln:{ to n person named Wess or |’ | Kagement It wos named in horfor | Eveéryman’s Bible Class meoting Sun- | by | stmas Sug . Our store is brimful 6f articles that would make acceptable Gifts. Beit a'sled, a wagbn, IELALD, FRIDAY, DE( =swmrex ensiblet - Xmas Gifts i ] IDDDDDAJUDDDDDDDDDUDQ e 4 0 City ltems : New Plerce Victor 1 & fitanley through Henry Nowiekl, has brought an action of foreclosure on & judgment Hen, ugainst property ol Btanley Butula on Gold strect. The len is dated November | |26, 192 special records.— advt Radgiew iz Co Lurygs lurge at couts tor A4~ vt The curd party and sociul plunned for this evening by the Buginess and Professional Women's club has been postponed Indefinitely, Gaod ik hoslery ut Rothfeder's, navt. Announcement 1s made of the of Roy Cameron of Itentachler street and Miss Huth Lil- | Han Wuchert of 64 Beymour street. | Miss Wuchert I8 employed ns a cash fer nt" Besse-Leland's store on Matn | Btrect, I Rev, women en- | Slippers Your first thought .would naturally be SLIPPERS. Let your next thought KINNEY’S SHOE STORE ~ Slipper - Headquarters 69c to $2.98 ! a | 00D0000DDN0D0000A0000 John L. Davis' subject at| ! day morning, Dee. 17, will be, "\thl‘ Mukes New Britaln Prosperous.’ | Clans meets at 9:30 a, m.—-advt, It The Children's McAll will have '« sale of ey @rticles, cuke and candy at the Lome of Miss Bennett at 123 Iforest street on Haturday ternoon froin 3 until 6 o'clock. Teu will be served, GREAT STORM AREA Heavy Fall of Rain or Snow Reported In Every State Eacept Florida — —Low Terperatures in West. Chicago, Dec. 15.—Heavy precipl- tution, either smow or rain, in pog ‘lons™of virtually every state except IMtorida. with a particu'arly heavy snow fell iry the lower Lake region narked the progress of winter o, {h United States, While temperatures were higher in the eastern und southern states, it re mained unusually cold in the north- ard was eolder from the upper Mississippl valley southweat- “v.rd to Coworado and the Texas pan- | handle. Temperatures of as low as i minus ten wege predicted for Nehras- ka, Towa ¥ th Dakota, ITurks St G INmnne. Dec. 16 (By A. Turk®y's delegates on the minorities | sub-commission of the Near FEast; conference *today again declared the establishment of a special Armenian homeland in Turkey impossible. 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