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To me it matters that in his second paragraph, for example, he says that “to John, Mary, Peter, Matthew and Christopher the Puritans added, for girls, Prudence, Constance, and Charity, and for boys, Increase, Preserved and Learned.
In a particularly fanciful metonym, the Narragansetts referred to the Puritans as Wood-burners .
In a very general sense the Puritans can be said to have added a few names to the stock which modern parents draw upon, but the author obviously did not mean that.
The Puritans would definitely have seen the name as having religious associations, or Roman Catholic associations at least, and would have objected to it strongly.
He was not trying to tell us that names like Increase, Constance , and Learned are now in general use thanks to the Puritans.