peltry

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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 Boggess, Arthur Clinton

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

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

The peltry of the north, no less than the gold and silver of the south, gave impetus to the efforts of those who first settled the western hemisphere.

From The Red River Colony A Chronicle of the Beginnings of Manitoba by Wood, Louis Aubrey

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)