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Show Derivation of Yankee Farington gives an etymology which n-ill be new to Connecticut readers. "The. name of Yankee is derived from the Yankow Indians formerly settled in Connecticut. That race now scarcely scarce-ly exists. To put an end to the wars that subsisted between those natives and the European settlers, laws were ordained which served to incorporate them, marriages being allowed." Reader, have you perchance inherited some drops of Yankow blood, along with the Yankow name? Henry A. Beers in the July Yale Review. |