SWEET CORN 



account of sweet corn was given. This 

 record was taken in 1779, when, it was 

 claimed, the early settlers around Plymouth, 

 Mass., obtained seed from the Susquehanna 

 Indians. Subsequently, this seed was plant- 

 ed and raised by the early settlers, and it 

 is possible to iind in this particular section 

 sweet corn which is not obtainable by 

 purchase on the market, sweet corn which 

 differs from the average sweet corn, grown 

 for sale. 



Still another account in 1822 accredits 

 the earliest introduction from Sullivan's 

 expedition among the Indians of the Sus- 

 quehanna River. Still another account 

 gives credit for the first corn as being found 

 by Sullivan's command w4ien it journeyed 

 into the Genesee country. New York, in 

 1779, the seed being brought from that 

 region into Connecticut, where it was grown, 

 and from there spread towards the South. 



However, earlier records than these, and 

 even a few later records, do not show that 

 swxet corn was well known. In Virginia, 

 in the year 1780, Jefferson made a series 



