Indian corn

But alass! these, when they had maize (yt is, Indean corne) they thought it as good as a feast, and wanted not only for 5. days togeather, but some time 2. or 3. months togeather, and neither had bread nor any kind of corne.

1623, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation

Every house has a garden. Many meadows, like those in England, are enclosed with three rails, lying one above the other; Indian corn is cultivated in the fields; the grass was dry and withered.

1828, Bernhard, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, chapter IV, in Travels Through North America, During the Years 1825 and 1826, volume 1, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Carey

Here and there an effort had been made to clear the land, and something like a field had been marked out, where, among the stumps and ashes of burnt trees, a scanty crop of Indian corn was growing.

1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 23, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC

Mother Ceres was exceedingly fond of her daughter Proserpina, and seldom let her go alone into the fields. But, just at the time when my story begins, the good lady was very busy, because she had the care of the wheat, and the Indian corn, and the rye and barley and, in short, of the crops of every kind, all over the earth; […]

1853, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Pomegranate Seeds”, in Tanglewood Tales, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, page 214

Season them with pepper. Put them in; and after the whole has boiled three hours at least, take four ears of young Indian corn, and having grated off all the grains, add them to the soup and boil it an hour longer.

1857, Eliza Leslie, “Autumn soup”, in Miss Leslie's New Cookery Book, Philadelphia: T. B. Peterson