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Definition of Conoy
1. Noun. A member of an Algonquian people formerly living in Maryland between Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac river; allies of the Nanticoke people.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Conoy
Literary usage of Conoy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Authentic History of Lancaster County: In the State of Pennsylvania by Jacob Isidor Mombert (1869)
"The Conestogo Creek is the western boundary of the township, and the Conoy Creek
entering near its Eastern boundary, Hows into the Susquehanna at Bainbridge ..."
2. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 1/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"Conoy. An Algonquian tribe, related to the Delawares, from whose ancestral stem
they apparently sprang, but their closest relations were with the Nanticoke, ..."
3. The Wilderness Trail: Or, The Ventures and Adventures of the Pennsylvania by Charles Augustus Hanna (1911)
"This was at the mouth of Conoy Creek, on or near the site of Locust Grove; which
is a short distance below Bainbridge.1 The ..."
4. Historical Papers and Addresses of the Lancaster County Historical Society by Lancaster County Historical Society (Pa (1897)
"In the year 1750 Jacob Downer, the founder of Maytown, built a tannery upon the
same stream where tne road from Galbraith's mill to Conoy ..."
5. Memoirs of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1850)
"In 1744, the same chief said that, some time before, the Conoy Indians had sent a
... Governor Thomas replied, that he well remembered that one of the Conoy ..."
6. Journal by Jean-Jacques Bouchard (1896)
"The farm and mills are now owned by Henry M. Wiley. All of the land from tbe
month of Conoy Creek, for about one mile and a half, was settled by John ..."
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