Thursday, October 20, 2011

Beyond Hope: Experience


 Meet Experience Tarbox of Wenham, MA (d. 1739).

I find names like this one immensely reassuring. Sure, there are terrible names today, but are they really so much worse than the terrible names of yesteryear?
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  1. In my family ancestry, there's a Remember Burgess (fem). So American Revolutionary, these names!

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  2. I love names like Experience -- some of the Puritans names are simply glorious.

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  3. I'd be willing to bet that an Experience in the modern world would have a rough time in high school...

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