"The naming of children," writes historian Daniel Scott Smith, "is culturally never a trivial act." This was specially so among the Puritans. One of their ministers declared, "… a good name is as a thread tyed about the finger, to make us mindful of the errand we came into the world to do for our master."
The Puritan families of Massachusetts named
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Damn kids.
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