8 Stewart, American Given Names, 26.
9 In Hingham, more than two-thirds of first-born male and female children received the same forenames as their parents. The pattern was much the same in Concord. See Smith, “Child-naming Practices,” 548; Fischer, “Forenames and the Family,” 85-89.
10 Fischer, “Forenames and the Family,” 91.
11 An Anglican student of Puritan onomastics dates the “Hebrew invasion of font names” from the year 1560, when the Geneva Bible was published in a compact English quarto edition. See Charles W. Bardsley, Curiosities of Puritan Nomenclature (London, 1897), 38-108.