Delawaren.

1721 in Documents Colonial Hist. N.-Y. (1855) V. 623 All the English..have..in Jersey & Pennsylvania, their own or home nations, called Delawares, [who] are exceedingly decreased.

1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. iv. 45 Look to a Delaware or a Mohican for a warrior!

1832 S. A. O'Ferrall Ramble through U.S.A. 46 The Lenni Lenape, or Delawares, as they were called by the English, from the circumstance of their holding their great ‘Council-fire’ on the banks of the Delaware river.

1877 L. H. Morgan Anc. Society ii. ii. 73 The number of gentes..varied in the different tribes, from three among the Delawares..to upwards of twenty among the Ojibwas.

1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. viii. 112 He spoke in Delaware.

1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. iv. 72 The Algonquian family..includes the languages..of New England (..Mohican, and so on, with Delaware to the south).

1965 Canad. Jrnl. Linguistics 10 133 Some Algonquians..now speak..Delaware in Oklahoma.

1709 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) II. 469 Chiefs of the Delaware Indians, settled at Peshtang above Conestogoe.

a1762 S. Niles Indian Wars in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1861) 4th Ser. V. ii. 430 A large party of Delaware Indians.

1763 J. Woolman Jrnl. 18 June (1971) viii. 133 None of them were quite perfect in the English and Delaware tongue.

1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. iv. 49 They spoke together earnestly in the Delaware language.