Thank God the colonists did not copy the names of the British rivers they had known. The use of English cities
was overdone with many duplications. I have read that in the twenties, the mayor of Bridgewater, England, came to US, he planned to visit every town here named Bridgewater, but had to give up that plan because there is one in almost every State. With War of 1812 a reaction set in. The towns on the coast of Maine were unprotected and brutalized so savagely, that new towns were called "China, Norway, Lisbon Falls", etc.