While the new towns were occasionally given the names of the leading grantees , not a few of them bore the historic names of english royalty , frequently those of friends and relatives of governor wentworth and his own royal family , the rockinghams , in england 一些小镇以受赠者的名字命名，其中许多名字源于英国皇室， wentworth州长的亲朋好友以及州长自己在英国的皇家姓氏rockinghams 。大部分受益人是参加过印第安战争的军人，其它还有荷兰人的后裔。
