Talk:Quinnipiack

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I live in New Haven, CT. Very near a black stone with some historical references about Captain CHARLES H. TOWNSHEND coming from England in the XVII hundreds and changing the lives of the Quinnipiac Indians for ever.....The stone is placed on a little park around 900 Townsend Ave....TOWNSEND AVENUE...not TOWNSHEND...why is the difference in the spelling? Is this street name refering to someone else rather than the British captain Charles H. Townshend?

According to The Streets of New Haven - The Origin of Their Names (ISBN 0943143020), it was named after "the TOWNSEND family that had lived there since 1798. [...] The reason for the difference in spelling is that Capt. Charles Hervey Townshend elected to put the h back in his name, according to English custom, but he did so after the street has already been named." -- StAkAr Karnak 15:45, 7 February 2007 (UTC)