well, ChanteyLass, you sound like you know what you are talking about.

Questions are raised about the name or names.

What did the Narragansett people call these things, I wonder?

"Jonnycakes" like as not is a word
derived from the English immigrants, rather than
the Narragansett Indians?

And if that is the case,
would this word not be derived from
"journey cakes,"
a phrase that turns up in at least one sea chantey?