1973, Ronald L. Baker, Folklore in the writings of Rowland E. Robinson (Popular Press), page 72:
Robinson does not slight this borrowing. When on the trail, for example, the Indian would travel "tuckernuck", an Algonquian word meaning "a picnic." As Robinson suggests, the early Americans borrowed both the idea and the word. In A Danvis Pioneer, when Josiah Hill and Kenelm Dalrymple eat a tuckernuck supper in an inn, Robinson explains, "In those primitive times it was no offense to the innholder nor shame to the traveler to carry his own provisions and eat them by the bar-room fire, and this was called 'travelling tuckernuck,' a name that smacks of Indian origin, […]"
1983, Gary B. Nash, The Private Side of American History: To 1877 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P.), page 106:
[…] Indians were such good hosts, the colonists called their own picnics, outings, and dances after the native squantums, tuckernucks, and canticos.
1981 May 15, Roger Austen, in a letter, reprinted in:
1991, Roger Austen, Genteel pagan: the double life of Charles Warren Stoddard (edited by John William Crowley), page xiv:
If only there were a [William Sturgis] Bigelow to invite ME to a Tuckernuck right now, for instance, or a Bay Lodge to smile at me across the dinner table. To some extent Vidal was correct in assessing that I had not had "much of a life" (though his objection was not pertinent in the context he was discussing) […].
