Editing New London, Connecticut (section)

===Colonial era===
The area was called Nameaug by the [[Pequot]] [[Native Americans of the United States|Indians]]. [[John Winthrop, Jr.]] founded the first English settlement here in 1646, making it about the 13th town settled in Connecticut. Inhabitants referred to it informally as Nameaug or as Pequot after the tribe. In the 1650s, the colonists wanted to give the town the official name of London after [[London, England]], but the [[Connecticut General Assembly]] wanted to name it Faire Harbour. The citizens protested, declaring that they would prefer it to be called Nameaug if it could not be officially named London.<ref name="Marrin2007">{{cite book|first=Richard B.|last=Marrin|title=Abstracts from the New London Gazette Covering Southeastern Connecticut, 1763-1769|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y2LanJi-x6MC&pg=PA242 |date=January 1, 2007|publisher=Heritage Books|isbn=978-0-7884-4171-4 |pages=242}}</ref><ref name="Caulkins">{{Cite book |last1=Caulkins |first1=Frances Manwaring |author-link=Frances Manwaring Caulkins |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/rc01003277/ |title=History of New London, Connecticut, from the first survey of the coast in 1612 to 1860 |last2=Griswold |first2=Cecelia |publisher=H. D. Utley |year=1895 |location=New London, CT |language=en |lccn=rc01003277 |via=[[Library of Congress]]}}</ref> The legislature relented, and the town was officially named New London on March 24, 1658.<ref name=":0" />{{Pg|page=119}}