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media type="custom" key="10463216" This how the 13 colonies were named. The Puritans named Massachusetts after a local Indian Tribe. Rhode Island was named after an Indian tribe called Red Island. Connecticut was named after Alogonquin meaning “land on the long tidal river”. Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New York were after England’s King George II. North and South Carolina was after King Charles I. Delaware was after the Delaware Indians. Pennsylvania was named after William Penn in honor of his father. Virginia was named after Elizabeth I the Virgin Queen of England. New York was after the Duke of York.