new name you can use on your kid

[George Thompson]

Is there some sort of doctrinal schism here?  Would the parents of "Wait
Still Winthrop" have approved of fretting, even if done well?

GAT

On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> At 9/13/2011 09:42 PM, George Thompson wrote:
>
>> Whatever happened to good old-fashioned names, like "Fretwell".
>>
>
> Or Wait Still, a prominent Winthrop of Massachusetts.
>
> Joel
>
>
>      [William Vandrills, will carry gentlemen, their wares or their
>> merchandise, from New-York to Philadelphia, in a boat that will "sail from
>> New-York for Thomas Akin's, in South Amboy, every Monday and Thursday, in
>> every Week, where a Waggon will be kept ready to proceed immediately for
>> Fretwell Wright's in Burlington; and upon their Arrival there they will
>> directly get a Passage to Philadelphia"; he keeps his boat at Whitehall
>> Slip, or leave messages and letters with Capt. Lewis, "at the sign of the
>> Devonshire"]
>>     N-Y Mercury, December 18, 1752, p. 3, col. ?
>>
>> This seems to be a particularly hard-line Puritan name, like "Thankful",
>> only more so -- I actually knew a "Thankful", a young woman in Maine, in
>> the
>> mid 1960s.
>>
>> GAT
>>
>> GAT
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Jonathan Lighter
>> <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > The computerized sales slip from the supermarket tells me that my
>> cashier
>> > was "Jherrica."
>> >
>> > Over 10,000 raw Google hits for "Jherrica," over 150,000 for "Jherica."
>> >
>> > To generalize from my experience, they should be mostly twentyish white
>> > ladies with hair the color of blood.
>> >
>> > JL
>> >
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>> George A. Thompson
>> Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
>> Univ.
>> Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.
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George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern Univ.
Pr., 1998, but nothing much since then.

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