Silence Hayward was born in Boston in 1683. Her mother's name was Experience.
I have seen one man named Silence in the records, but it was generally a feminine name. As a teenager, Benjamin Franklin published a series of saucy letters under the pseudonym Silence Dogood.
Beyond Hope is a recurring feature that highlights unusual virtue names.
It seems awful to think of a parent wanting their child to be silent, especially as we have the common phrase "silent as a tomb".
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