peltry

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Brashears had departed for New Orleans without settling the account for the peltry which Todd had committed to the joint care of Montgomery and Winston.

From The Settlement of Illinois, 1778-1830 by Boggess, Arthur Clinton

To accomplish this beaver and other peltry were placed on the enumerated list, but the duties payable in England were materially decreased.

From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene

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 Bolton, Herbert Eugene

That evening Jessup left for Johnstown on his way to Albany with his peltry; and took with him a letter which I wrote to the Commandant at Johnstown fort.

From The Little Red Foot by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)

Then a husky-dog in bells and harness bounced up over the drifts, followed by another and yet another—eight or ten dogs to each long, low toboggan that slid along loaded and heaped with peltry.

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)