The Intellectual Devotional: American History: Revive Your Mind, Complete Your Education, and Converse Confidently about Our Nation's Past (The Intellectual Devotional Series)

by David S. Kidder

The name Connecticut came from the Mohegan word Quinnehtukqut, meaning long tidal river.

The English outlawed the use of the word Pequot after the war, but it entered New England lore anyway and later served as the inspiration for the name of the ship Pequod in Herman Melville’s masterpiece, Moby-Dick.