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Pamlico

noun

A member of the Algonquian people formerly of the Pamlico river valley in North Carolina.

The Algonquian language of the Pamlico.

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"Pamlico" Quotes from Famous Books

... began in 1584 by sending an expedition to explore the coast for a suitable site for a colony. His men sailed by way of the Canaries, and came upon North America in the neighborhood of Pamlico Sound, avoiding the stormy route directly across the Atlantic which Gilbert had followed. They found, therefore, instead of the bleak shore of Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, the genial climate of North Carolina ...

— Introductory American History • Henry Eldridge Bourne and Elbert Jay Benton

... him almost twice as much as I had paid Mr. Furley. At that time the English blockaded the Chesapeake, which made it necessary to send merchandise from Norfolk to Elizabeth City by the Grand Canal, so that it might get to sea by Pamlico Sound and Ocracock Inlet. I took some canal boats on shares; Mr. Grice, who married my other young mistress, was the owner of them. I gave him one half of all I received for freight; out of the other half I had to victual and ...

— Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America • Moses Grandy

Words linked to "Pamlico" : Algonquin, Algonquian, Algonquian language