peltry

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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 Boggess, Arthur Clinton

The Company would not venture its peltry on the lower rapid where the river rushes down almost like a waterfall.

From The "Adventurers of England" on Hudson Bay A Chronicle of the Fur Trade in the North (Volume 18 of the Chronicles of Canada) by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

Well on into the nineteenth century fur traders were still sending in supplies from Montreal and bringing back peltry from Fort William in flotillas of great bark canoes.

From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Skelton, Oscar Douglas

Tobacco, rice, flour, indigo, peltry, oil, whale fins, flaxseed, spermaceti, masts, spars, &c. are in good demand.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. I by Sparks, Jared

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 Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)