to English
princes; for the Puritans were never other than stanch friends of
liberty, a thing which grew upon the citizens of the Old Dominion by
degrees, and by slow degrees besides. They were loyalists and
royalists. This, New England was not, and could not be. The Old
Dominion's name, Virginia, and its first colony, Jamestown, bear
attestation to this loyalty of which mention is made, though the
State's name was given by that lover of Queen Elizabeth and lover of
America, Sir Walter Raleigh. Berkeley recalls that querulous old
loyalistic governor of Virginia, that fast believer in the divine right
of kings and of himself; Westmoreland, Middlesex, New Kent, Sussex,
Southampton, Surrey, Isle of Wight, King and Queen, Anne, Hanover,
Caroline, King William, Princess, Prince George, Charles City, are
names which tell of sturdy believers in kings. No such mark can be
found in the English colonies to the north. To England they were
attached, but not to English kings. Bath, York, Bedford, Essex,
Warwick, and time would fail to tell this story through. In Maryland
you may note this transplanted England too: Somerset, Saulsbury, Cecil,
Annapolis, Calvert, and St. Mary's, betraying the Roman Catholic origin
of the colony, as do Baltimore, Saulsbury, Northampton, and
Marlborough. Who can doubt the maternity of such names as these?

Now turn face toward New England, and find old England again: Berwick,
Shapleigh, Boston, Litchfield, Clearfield, Norfolk, Springfield, New
Britain, Hampton, Middlesex, Fairfield, Windham, East Lynne, Roxbury,
Kent, Cornwall, Bristol, Enfield, Stafford, Woodstock, Buckingham,
Stonington, Fair Haven, Taunton, Barnstable, Falmouth, Middlebury,
Bedford, Dartmouth, Pomfret, Abington,--but why extend the list,
musical as it is with the home days and the home land? But name
Plymouth, because it shows the tenacity of English loyalty to England;
for though the Mayflower, with her Puritans, might not have an English
port from which to set sail for a New World, they do yet name their
landing-haven after the English harbor. Blood is thicker than water
when the instincts are consulted. Seeing these names, we can not
mistake where we are. This is as certainly English as the
Pacific-coast line was Spanish and the Mississippi Valley French.
These Englishmen imported names as well as populations. And I, for
one, like them and their names; for they abound in suggestion. Who
settled Connecticut and Mas