TIL that in addition to names like “Hope”, “Felicity”, and “Prudence”, Puritans also named their children things like “Jesus-Christ-came-into-the-world- to-save”, “Damned”, and “Fly-fornication”.

Submitted by mckinneym t3_zt7fb7 on December 23, 2022 at 5:30 AM in todayilearned