settlers

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The first of the rebels struck would have been the horde plundering the sutlers and drinking in the streets of the camp.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2013

Harper's readers soon began to look forward to the weekly drawings of loafing sentries, mule skinners, sutlers, cannoneers, "from our special correspondent at the front."

From Time Magazine Archive

In a maze of colour and guy-ropes, of tent-pegs and tall spears, of chessplayers and sutlers, of tapestried interiors and of gold plate, Arthur of England had sat down to starve his friend.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

My son, we are now in the hands of the revolutionists, army sutlers, contractors, and adventurers.

From The Clansman An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Dixon, Thomas

Al Klapp had it in for the sutlers.

From Si Klegg, Book 1 (of 6) His Transformation From A Raw Recruit To A Veteran by McElroy, John