Blue Hen State
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
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 Hens Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware
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