[PW] ?delmarva peninsula

[John P. Dyson]

Quoting John Henderson <jhenderson at ithaca.edu>:

> The Delmarva peninsula takes its name from Delaware, Maryland, and
> Virginia, but when was that name coined and did it have a different
> colonial or pre-colonial name? Did the Nanticoke, Lenape or
> Susquehannocks or other pre-European peoples give it a name? When the
> Dutch and Swedes and then English were disputing their colonial
> claims, did they agree on a name or have their own names for the
> peninsula?


John, Salisbury University has a research center devoted to the history 
and demography of Delmarva at nabbhistory.salisbury.edu. That seems to 
be the place to inquire. Since the various occupying tribes were 
Algonquian-speaking, their name(s) for the peninsula may have been 
similar.

John Dyson