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Blue Hen State
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The State of Delaware; - a popular sobriquet. It is said, though the story lacks proof, to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain, named Caldwell, that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen, whence Blue Hen's Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Blue Hen State'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/blue-hen-state.html. 1828.
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Blue Hen State'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/blue-hen-state.html. 1828.
