Miscellania

Here’s how one writer explained Federal Burt’s unique name and gave it some context. “As the new government under the federal constitution convened [at the time of his birth], his Christian name is ascribed to that circumstance. There are names in our country originating in greater caprice,–as Mr Preserved Fish, a sound merchant of New York, and Mr Adam Eve, who died lately in Penn., at a great age, and Mr Pickled Ham of Maine, who has not yet turned to corruption.” From the Christian Mirror, Feb.15, 1828; appeared also in other publications