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The capital city of Connecticut
Any of a number of placenames in England, variants of Hertford
A habitational surname from these places
{i} family name; capital city of Connecticut (USA)
the capital city of the US state of Connecticut. City (pop., 2000: 121,578), capital of Connecticut, U.S. Lying on the Connecticut River, it was settled by Dutch traders in the 1630s. The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, which later served as a model for the U.S. Constitution, were adopted (1639) in Hartford. The city's insurance industry, its major business, dates from 1794, when the first Hartford fire insurance policy was issued. The statehouse (1796) was designed by Charles Bulfinch. Institutions of higher learning include Trinity College. The birthplace of J.P. Morgan, Hartford was also the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Mark Twain, whose houses are preserved
the state capital of Connecticut; located in central Connecticut on the Connecticut river; a center of the insurance business
Its large dark-colored berries ripen earlier than those of most other kinds
The Hartford grape, a variety of grape first raised at Hartford, Connecticut, from the Northern fox grape

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Hartford Convention
(Dec. 5, 1814-Jan. 5, 1815) Secret meeting of Federalist Party delegates from New England states who opposed the War of 1812. It adopted a strong states'-rights position in opposition to the mercantile policies of Pres. James Madison and the Embargo Act of 1807 and other measures that prohibited trade with Britain and France. News of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent on Dec. 24, 1814, which ended the war, discredited the nascent separatist movement at the convention and weakened Federalist influence
East Hartford
A town of north-central Connecticut on the Connecticut River opposite Hartford. It was settled c. 1640. Population: 50,452
West Hartford
A town of central Connecticut, a residential suburb of Hartford. Population: 60,110