>I think that Puckum is a Nanticoke Indian name. Can anyone confirm >this? Any little bit of information or comments on this is would be >GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!!!!! The Puckham family descends from a union between John Puckham, a Christianized Nanticoke Indian, and Anthony Johnson's granddaughter, Joan Johnson, a free African-American, in Stepney Parish, Somerset County, Maryland, on 25 February 1682/3. However, the couple's children were bound out as apprentices, and were not raised in an Indian culture.