Sorry, I failed to give the complete citation for the volume in which appear
two of the four sources I named. Here it is: Robert M. Taylor Jr. and Ralph
S. Crandall, eds., _Generations and Change: Genealogical Perspectives in
Social History_ (Macon, 1986).
<< Here are several authoritative sources: Daniel Scott Smith, "Child-Naming
Practices, Kinship Ties, and Change in Family Attitudes in Hingham,
Massachusetts, 1641 to 1880," _The Journal of Social History_ 18(1985):541-66;
David
Hackett Fischer, "Forenames and the Family in New England: An Exercise in
Historical Onomastics," in _Generations and Change: Genealogical Perspectives
in Social History_ (Macon, 1986), 215-41; Darrett B. Rutman and Anita H.
Rutman, "'In Nomine Avi': Child-Naming Patterns in a Chesapeake County,
1650-1750," in _Generations and Change_, 243-65; Gloria L. Main, "Naming
Children in
Early New England," _Journal of Interdisciplinary History_ 27(1996):1-27. >>
Gene Z.