But we have not done with the Chaunceys. One of the most singular accidents that ever befell nomenclature has befallen them. What has happened to Sidney in England, has happened to Chauncey in America, only "more so." The younger Chaunceys married and begot children. A grandson of Isaac Chauncey died at Boston, in 1787, aged eighty-three. He was a great patriot, preacher, and philanthropist at a critical time in his country's history. The name had spread, too, and no wonder that it suggested itself to the authoress of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" as a character name. She, however, placed it in its proper position as a surname. It may be that Mrs. Stowe has given the use of this patronymic as a baptismal name an impulse, but it had been so used long before she herself was born. It was a memorial of Charles Chauncey, of Boston. It has now an average place throughout all the eastern border and the older settlements. I take up the New York Directory for 1878, and at once light upon Chauncey Clark, Chauncey Peck, and Chauncey Quintard; while, to distinguish the great Smith family, there are Chauncey Smith, lawyer, Chauncey Smith, milk-dealer, Chauncey Smith, meat-seller, and Chauncey Smith, junior, likewise engaged in the meat market. Thus, it is popular with all classes. In my London Directory for 1870, there are six Sidney Smiths and one Sydney Smith. Chauncey and Sidney seem likely to run a race in the two countries, but Chauncey has much the best of it at present. Another circumstance contributed to the formation of Americanisms in nomenclature. The further the Puritan emigrants drew away from the old familiar shores, the more predominant the spirit of liberty grew. It was displayed, amongst other ways, in the names given to children born on board vessel.[60] It was an outlet for their pent-up enthusiasm. Shakespeare puts into the mouth of Pericles-- "We cannot but obey The powers above us. Could I rage and roar As doth the sea she lies on, yet the end Must be as 'tis. My gentle babe, _Marina_ (whom, For she was born at sea, I've named so) here I charge your charity withal, leaving her The infant of your care." Act iii. sc. 3. The Puritan did the same. _Oceanus_ Hopkins was born on the high seas in the _Mayflower_, 1620; _Peregrine_ White came into the world as the same vessel touched at Cape Cod; _Sea-born_ Egginton, whose birth "happened in his berth," as Hood would say, is set down as owner of some land and a batch of negroes later on (Hotten, p. 453); while the marriage of _Sea-mercy_ Adams with Mary Brett is recorded, in 1686, in Philadelphia (Watson's "Annals of Philadelphia," 1. 503). Again, we find the following:-- "1626, Nov. 6. Grant of denization to Bonaventure Browne, born beyond sea, but of English parents."--C. S. P.