[Ads-l] antedating "panhandle"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Of a state.  MW: 1846

1839 (May 4) in Richmond [Va.] Whig and Public Advertiser (May 10) 1
[G.]:  Brooke county...the old pan handle.

I don't see a "panhandle of Texas" until 1868.

JL

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