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Saint John
Origin: named after the river
seaport in S New Brunswick, Canada, at the mouth of the Saint John River: pop. 72,000- river flowing from N Maine through New Brunswick, Canada, into the Bay of Fundy: 418 mi (673 km)
Origin: named for the date of its discovery, June 24, 1604, the feast of Saint
See Saint John in American Heritage Dictionary 4
An island of the U.S. Virgin Islands in the West Indies east of Puerto Rico. It became a Danish colony in the 1700s and passed to various European powers before Denmark sold it to the United States in 1917.
A city of southern New Brunswick, Canada, at the mouth of the St. John River on the Bay of Fundy. First settled as a French trading post in the 1630s, it was captured by the British in 1758 and was a refuge for Loyalists after the American Revolution. Population: 68,000.
, Henry. First Viscount Bolingbroke. 1678-1751.
English statesman, orator, and writer. A Jacobite, he spent much of his life in exile and wrote influential political treatises, notably The Idea of a Patriot King (1749).
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