DCHP-3

debtor

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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a person taking debt at a trading post.

Quotations

1776
He has been for some Years past a Trader . . . on the back of Albany Fort, and often used to see the Bungee Indian Debtors belonging to that Place . . . .
1801
They are come from the Beaver Mountain where there are some of my debtors . . . .