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
Two wolves had run down a deer, only to deliver their own peltry with it to the astonished sportsmen they had summoned by their ill-advised howling.
From Winter Fun by William O. Stoddard
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 Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
Governor Dongan seized the moment to promise better bargains for the peltry than the French could offer.
From The Road to Frontenac by Samuel Merwin
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
Choueguen likewise drew to itself a large share of the valuable peltries of the north shore, which used before to find their way down the St. Lawrence to Montreal and Quebec.
From Toronto of Old by Henry Scadding
North of the St. Lawrence was a power that he shunned still more—the French governor, who had legal right to plunder the peltries of all who traded and trapped without license.
From The Story of the Trapper by A. C. Laut
In addition to the articles thus swapped or “trucked,” the trappers assembled at Saint Vrain’s in exchange for their peltries, had received a large quantity of coin currency, in the shape of Mexican silver dollars.
From The Yellow Chief by Mayne Reid
We just run up to our moorings when we come back from a yachting trip, and there's a nice little nook forward which would just hold a bundle of those peltries.
From The Boy Ranchers of Puget Sound by Harold Bindloss
A trade shop in which the Indians bartered their peltries.
From Canadian Wilds Tells About the Hudson's Bay Company, Northern Indians and Their Modes of Hunting, Trapping, Etc. by Martin Hunter
