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Subject: Puritan Goody
Author: Cleveland Kent Evans   (Authenticated as clevelandkentevans)
Date: February 14, 2010 at 6:03:46 AM
Reply to: Re: Any information about the name GOODY? by Telfalathiel
Except Goody was generally not a NAME for the Puritans, it was a title, short for "Goodwife". You can find a lot of women referred to as Goody in old Puritan records, but it was really their form of "Mrs.", not a name.

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