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To: Tired of Taxes

Chastity, Hope, Prudence, Obedience, Charity. All pretty common names in the old days.

My personal favorite, though English Puritan rather than American, was the son of Praise-God Barebones who he named If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned Barebones.

Oddly, he chose to go by the name Nicolas when he grew up. Made a name for himself as an early economist.

His brother was named Jesus-Christ-came-into-the-world- to-save Barebones.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2013/09/13/puritan_names_lists_of_bizarre_religious_nomenclature_used_by_puritans.html


72 posted on 12/31/2014 10:23:05 AM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: Sherman Logan

Those Barebones names were pretty ambitious. lol

Coincidentally, just the other day, I was thinking about what I might’ve named three daughters, if I had had daughters instead of three sons. And Faith, Hope, and Charity came to mind. Not that I would’ve picked those names; years ago I had other names in mind for daughters. But they would’ve been nice names for girls. And now, here on this forum, coincidentally, today there’s a discussion on those types of names. Surreal.


77 posted on 12/31/2014 10:33:22 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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