On Mon, Jun 4, 2018 at 4:41 PM, Paul Allen <pla16...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Here's how it sort of worked in the UK. > In the early days of Colonial New England, town governance and church parish borders were essentially identified. When the sea-side town of Ipswich opened a new section of land further inland for bigger farms and called it literally "The Hamlet," since a large acreage with a small number of houses at the crossroads. When The Hamlet later incorporated as a separate town (having grown, and having different agrarian concerns than a coastal town), it took the name "Hamilton." -- Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/n1vux
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