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1642 in Hist. Coll. Essex Inst. (1863) V. 219/2 Other poore people shalbe repayed..at the next Indian corne harvest.

a1744 W. Byrd Hist. Dividing Line (1929) 209 We encampt near one of these Indian Corn Fields, where was excellent Food for our Horses.

1751 J. Bartram Observ. Trav. from Pensilvania 60 This repast consisted of 3 great kettles of Indian corn soop, or thin homony, with dry'd eels and other fish boiled in it.

1778 in Pennsylvania Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1902) 26 32 Went into winter quarters in Newport, in old empty houses..and the food worse,—little bread and that made of rice and Indian corn meal.

1796 I. Weld Trav. N. Amer. (1800) I. 183 Indian corn bread..is a coarse, strong kind of bread, which has something of the taste of that made from oats.

1818 F. Hall Trav. Canada & U.S. xxviii. 324 The traveller..suddenly mounting a little rise, close to a poor cottage with its Indian corn patch..finds himself opposite to the Capitol of the Federal city.

1888 W. Whitman November Boughs 76 A circle of twelve or fourteen ‘pickaninnies’, eating their supper of pudding (Indian corn mush) and milk.

1964 Cookbk. (Amer. Heritage) (1967) 163 Indian corn stew.

1986 B. Fussell I hear Amer. Cooking Introd. p. xxxvii The Southwest held Indian corn dances and ate posole, honoring both Christ and the corn gods.