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face=Arial><FONT size=3 face=Verdana>>></FONT>I wonder if the words in
Delaware come from the Jargon as well, or were<BR>borrowed
independently?</FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial><FONT size=3 face=Verdana>I think the term Pashtank in Delaware came
from the Paxton Boys, a vigilante group, who murdered many members of
the Susquehannok tribe in 1763. This was certainly known to the
Delawares.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial><FONT size=3 face=Verdana>Interestingly some Delaware men where known
to have traveled to the northwest in the 1800s and married into tribes there as
Phil CashCash knows.</FONT></FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial><FONT size=3 face=Verdana>Jim</FONT></DIV>
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