peltry
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The sheriff for serving a writ or a warrant shall receive three livers in peltry; for levying an execution, 5 per cent, including the fees of the clerk of the court.
From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Arthur Clinton Boggess
At the request of Iberville, the new governor of Louisiana, the government now permitted Illinois traders to sell their peltry in Louisiana, to prevent them from earning it over the mountains to the English.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Herbert Eugene Bolton
The fees of the court shall be as follows: A magistrate, for every cause of fifty livers or upwards in peltry, shall receive one pistole in peltry, and in proportion for a lesser sum.
From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Arthur Clinton Boggess
The clerk for issuing a writ shall receive three livers in peltry, and all other fees as heretofore.
From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Arthur Clinton Boggess
When the sweet acorns, dropping in the frosty night, tempt the coon to a later feast, there is as good sport and primer peltry.
From In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
We do not suppose that any store-houses for the deposit of goods or peltries were maintained here after the conquest.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
Their crews had, however, traded off their peltries somewhere else, and shortly after their arrival Mr. Oliver and his party left the inlet in the canoe which he had sent the Indians back to bring.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
They had spread a number of peltries out upon the stones, which Mr. Oliver explained were seal skins.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
I might take a few packages of peltries, but the great bulk must be left behind; yet it seems to me folly to go to Fort Wayne.
From Wau-nan-gee or the Massacre at Chicago A Romance of the American Revolution by Major John Richardson
Reckless bushrangers, they carried on an illicit trade with the Indians, diverting peltries from the fur company at Quebec, and demoralising the savage proselytes of the missions.
From Old Quebec The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan
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