Long Connecticut: A True Story 

As a Connecticut citizen, I want our rightful longness back.

As a Chilean-Connecticuter I feel like long Connecticut is my true home

Having driven through Connecticut once by mistake for about five minutes before turning back while on holiday, I too demand that Long Connecticut be revived! Everyone in the US should be able to drive into Connecticut by mistake!

As a life time Connecticut citizen, I can confirm that long Connecticut has been the most interesting thing to happen since

As someone from Connecticut, I demand a revival of the Connecticut empire!

Long Connecticut may have died, but it gave its life to form a new dream: Ohio. Hey, I never said all dreams were good.

Man the sheer amount of tax revenue there could be today if Long Connecticut survived 😢

I love how you used like half a dozen ways to describe people from Connecticut

As a Connecticandy I can confirm, we have NO idea what to call ourselves.

Early British colonial claims will always be hilarious. Long Georgia supposedly stretched all the way to Los Angeles (and Slightly-Shorter Georgia went to the Mississippi)

I'm so glad you have finally covered this important issue. As a Connecticut citizen I strongly believe our rightful territory and length returned to us.

Please do more on the various claims. This is one of those early American oddities that really barely gets a paragraph in most books.

What a hearthbreaking tale! Justice For Long Connecticut! ⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️⚔️

Something interesting is because of how anti-slavery the Western Reserve region was as the result of Connecticut's former influence, the three oldest sons of the abolitionist John Brown, John Jr, Jason, and Owen, together with other participants in John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry, were all living in Ashtabula County outside Cleveland. Not to mention Governor William Denison refused to honor Virginia's request for Owen's arrest and extradition! And something else the region has in common with Connecticut: Clambake! After the Civil War, railroads began carrying fresh Atlantic seafood on ice from New York through Pennsylvania, Ohio and on to Chicago, which led to it becoming popular around Cleveland! Cleveland's Public Square was actually designed when it was part of Connecticut! Moses Cleaveland oversaw the New England-style design of the plan for what would become the modern downtown area, centered on Public Square, before returning to CT, never again to visit Ohio. Moses Cleaveland once served in the Connecticut militia as a brigadier general during the American Revolution, and he was a shareholder in the Connecticut Land Company!

Thank you, Mr. Rackham, for treating our majestic state with the proper respect she deserves Jokes, aside, seeing the history of Connecticut being covered outside of grade school is absolutely wild and I’m so happy this video exists

As a Clevelander…I did know this! I often feel like we feel like an east coast city, formed of Connecticut …Columbus midwestern…Cincinnati southern. Cleveland was known as the Western Reserve (of Connecticut). Case Western Reserve University, for example.

The fact that the people from the seventeenth century are animated wielding Mosins tickles me more than it should.

It’s sad that as a resident of Connecticut, that I had to learn the history of my state by myself and not with others in school.

I love how many different ways he referred to "people from Connecticut"

Its pretty odd that Pennsylvania seems to consistently save the US from existential crises.

My home state of Rhode Island actually won most of it's border disputes otherwise Connecticut would actually reach Narragansett Bay and so would Massachusetts. We'd have about have as much land.

0:34 , Just imagine it: Cleveland, CT...Chicago, CT...Des Moines, CT....Omaha, CT...Salt Lake City, CT.... and all of it connecticuted by Interstate 80!!!!!

If long Connecticut takes Chicago with it I’d give my support.

Oh yeah I heard about the yankee panemite war. The Iroquois didn’t really reneg on the deal it was some different tribe that was living there and didn’t recognize the deal made between the colonists and Iroquois

Petition to restore Connecticut to its rightful borders

Finally someone talks about the best thing that never was, I will never forget what was sacrificed to make Ohio

all true sons of connecticut shoudl rise up and reclaim was theirs by right, LONG LIVE TO LONG CONNECTICUT

Long Conneticut: Connects the Oceans Cuts through the US

As a person from Connecticut living in Connecticut GIVE US BACK OUR LAND FOR THE EMPIRE OF CONNECTICUT!!!!!!

I’ve lived in Connecticut my whole life and i’m ashamed I was never told any of thing in school.

So Connecticut's name finally makes sense to me. It made a huge westward connection that was cut (just like the 'on' from said word). To further add to confusion they decided on the 'Arkansas' level of illogical pronunciation.

Heart breaking, a modern tragedy

as a Connecticut citizen this is about the only time I have ever , and I mean ever seen history content on the state. how did i not know about this?

As a South African, I demand that we get our Long Connecticut back!

I live in Connecticut and I have never heard of this! It's interesting!

You should do more videos on little state battles like The Toledo War and the Honey War and that time I yelled at a Hoosier in Danville

Never knew my home city was originally part of long Connecticut! In my home city of Warren there used to be a school called Warren Western Reserve and I didn’t know what that meant!

I believe the proper term for “people from Connecticut” is “Connecticutie.”

I saw this on an old map one time and I wondered and I could never find out more

I was born and spent the first thirty years of my life in Connecticut. And even I don't know what the correct word for a Connecticut resident is. So then, I moved to Massachusetts. Good luck even guessing what the term for one of our residents is. 😂

They never taught me about this when I lived in Connecticut.

I had no idea this was even a thing as one time. Nice video Jack.

Hi. Citizen of Connecticut here. Something something bring back long Connecticut :)

I'm always uneasy about borders that never align with natural boundaries like rivers or mountains. One day I'd love to see some alternate version of the US states were the lines were drawn with those obstacles taken into account. Like maybe states with some big river running through them would just be split in two with the river in the centre, that sort of thing 😊

Amazing piece of history I'd never heard of!

I miss the days us nutmeggers snuggled and sold crap that passed off as nutmeg. Well at least we got Lake Compounce and Greer’s chicken.

Fun fact: that's how Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, got part of its name.

The world is Connecticut 💪

Therapist, "Long Connecticut isn't real. Long Connecticut can't hurt you." This video apparently, ^^^

Wow, this Connecticur truly connects and cuts

Long chile: "Finally a worthy opponent, our fight will be legendary

I knew the story but this presentation is the best I have seen

As a Utahn unlawfully deprived of Long Connecticut, I demand that Ogden, Utah be annexed back into our great intercontinental state.

As a citizen of Connecitcut, this is a certified moment.

Of all the different versions you used, I think I like Connecta Kittens best.

As a New Yorker even I demand the return of long Connecticut. What right have we to stand in the way of a dream so beautiful??

I love how the tone is the same from the end of Byzantine empire video

Earth is connecticut Mars is connecticut The solar system is connecticut The Milky Way galaxy is connecticut Reality itself is connecticut You cannot escape connecticut

First we retake the notch, then our rightful transcontinental lands!

As a proud Connecticuter we must take back our land for a dream of a long state

There was once a dream that was Long Connecticut. You could only whisper it. Anything more than a whisper and it would vanish... it was so fragile

This is the alternative history I want to see!!

I appreciate the ever-changing Connecticut demonyms.

This is mentioned in Connecticut schools but it’s a footnote in colonial history and is usually referred to as a sea to sea grant. It’s a blink and you miss it kind of thing especially since post revolutionary war era is not really cover in any school in the United States anyway.

Imagine high-speed rail cutting right through the country through this one state. The economic boons of spanning coast to coast!

You always make My day man! Please do Francisco franco 😊😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

As a Connecticuttan, we at least need the notch and the Western Reserve back. The day will come, long Connecticut is our rightful clay. We have no idea what to call ourselves, but that is an ever so slightly more distant dream than long Connecticut.

Jacks back!

Finally the Real facts!

A bit unrelated to the topic of the video, but I'd love to see the Life and Times of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud, that man got up to some wild shenanigans, from working at a woodmill in Sweden and disappearing without a trace for years, to fighting as a mercenary for the Dutch colonial army on Sumatra, to selling weapons to the Ethiopians to fight off the Italians. All that after he left a legacy as one of the most influencial and genius poets of the French language and his love affair with another poet, Paul Verlaine

Petition to Have Long Connecticut

As a resident of Connecticut, I am I tears

This is like the Brazil video when all of Brazilian RU-vid hoped into the comments. Except it's Connecticut RU-vid. Which is apparently a thing.

Connecticut knows how to build wide

HELL YEAH, as a Nutmegger, I have been DYING for someone to cover our righteous lands

I've been advocating for years for this, give back chicago

That made me sad. :

Virginia in a 1609 and 1611 grants gave us almost all the US as well as parts of Canada. And in 1783 we claimed territory to the Mississippi River and north past Wisconsin.

That was way more depressing than I expected.

Instant clasic

"The matter can only be settled by blood." "Sir for the last time this is a Wendy's and I just want to know if you want the Classic or Spicy Chicken Combo."

Longsachusetts, that being Minnesota is my favorite pre modern American jurisdiction claim

I didn’t know Connecticut was long. Interesting.

Zebulon is the wildest name, strong Raygun-Gothic Vibe; what makes it even better is that its Biblical (one of Jacob's sons, one of the Tribes of Israel)

It’s called Connecticut because it connects from sea to shining sea.

Probably would have died of dysentery on the Connecticut Trail anyway.

Hail to New England!!! We are number one!!! 🌲🌲🌲

Oh that's why there is a secound c in the name. It's silent because they never made it to the secound sea.

Mens heart swells when he thinks of Long Connecticut.

We must bring i it back

Surely it's wide Connecticut

I remember learning in school that Los Angeles was once apart of the state of Georgia. Back when Georgia extended to the West coast

Connecticut, sadly, could never connect the two oceans

Long furby: * exists * Connecticut: hold my beer

You should cover how Ohio and Michigan had a skirmish over Toledo.

make long Connecticut longer, encircling the entire globe

The single most important (and only) thing to happen in the history of Connecticut

"Connect-it-cut"

*GLORY TO THE CONNECTICUTIAN EMPIRE!!!* *QUI TRANSTULIT SUSTINET* 💪💪💪

As a CT native, we first have to take back the notch from Massachusetts. Then....we go west!