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Subject: Re: Louisiana Parishes named for Saints
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2002 13:59:27 EDT

from Sylvia Inzerrella at:


Don,
The one Parish that I did call was St Tammany because of the rare name.
Through a little research I found that it is named after an Indian chief
named Tammamend. Who hated the English so that the Revolutionaries called him
a "saint". He was a Delaware Indian who sold Philadelphia to the English (via
William Penn) in 1682. Interesting!

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