The same as the whortleberry.
1670. The Fruits natural to the Island are Mulberries, Posimons, Grapes great and small, Huckelberries.—D. Denton, ‘Description of N. York’ (1845), p. 3. (N.E.D.)
1705. There are three Sorts of Hurts, or Huckleberries, upon Bushes, Two to Ten Foot high.—Beverley, ‘Virginia,’ ii. 15.
1768. Three boys went out in the morning of that day to gather huckle berries.—Boston Evening Post, Aug. 29.
1770. A lad about eleven Years old, as he was gathering Whortle-Berries [near Danvers] was bit by a Rattle-Snake.—Id., Sept. 10.
1848. As you said in 1840, Harrison was picking whortleberries two miles off, while the battle was being fought, I suppose it is a just conclusion to say Cass was aiding Harrison to pick whortleberries.—Mr. Abraham Lincoln of Illinois, House of Repr., July 27: Cong. Globe, p. 1042, App.
