Waiting for reviewNamesCandidate #50934 · from the Puritas diff · puritas-full-2026-10-19

ʋncasUncas

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it: 43 times in 3 works
Consistency: 100% (43 of 43)
Reach if approved: ~48 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner: No opinion (map not loaded)
Matches: Exact word, any case
In our text: 46 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings: None
Taken into joins: None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (43 changes in 3 works, 100% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (5 of 43)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied

Printed
… the Moheags did break out again in greater violence than ever before, insomuch that ƲncasUncas was forced to betake himself to a Fort, and was there surrounded with multitudes …
With rule
… the Moheags did break out again in greater violence than ever before, insomuch that ƲncasUncas was forced to betake himself to a Fort, and was there surrounded with multitudes …
Increase Mather · Relation of the Indian Troubles in New England · p. 58 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Wizzard by all his hideous and diabolical howlings obtain showers. Whereupon he (i. e. ƲncasUncas) applyed himself to Mr. Fitch (the Faithful and able Teacher of the Church in …
With rule
… Wizzard by all his hideous and diabolical howlings obtain showers. Whereupon he (i. e. ƲncasUncas) applyed himself to Mr. Fitch (the Faithful and able Teacher of the Church in …
Increase Mather · History of the War with the Indians · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… e. g. the Natick & Punka…g Indians, and the Mohawks and the Moheags under ƲncasUncas; albeit it is too evident that he was secretly conspiring with Philip in his …
With rule
… e. g. the Natick & Punka…g Indians, and the Mohawks and the Moheags under ƲncasUncas; albeit it is too evident that he was secretly conspiring with Philip in his …
Increase Mather · Concerning the Prevalency of Prayer · p. 5 · Open in the reader
Printed
… the Trecs began to languish, and the Indians to despair of an Harvest; wherefore ƲncasUncas (for although he be a friend to the English, yet he and all his …
With rule
… the Trecs began to languish, and the Indians to despair of an Harvest; wherefore ƲncasUncas (for although he be a friend to the English, yet he and all his …
Increase Mather · History of the War with the Indians · p. 45 · Open in the reader
Printed
… Major Mason, and Deputy Governour of Connecticut Colony) against the Pequots, with whom went ƲncasUncas an Indian Sachem of Moheag who was newly revolted from the Pequots.
With rule
… Major Mason, and Deputy Governour of Connecticut Colony) against the Pequots, with whom went ƲncasUncas an Indian Sachem of Moheag who was newly revolted from the Pequots.
Increase Mather · Relation of the Indian Troubles in New England · p. 27 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (0)

None: wherever Puritas had this word on its own, it changed it.