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Fur Trade, Hist.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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become a freeman (def. 1).

See: freeman(def. 1)

Quotations

1832

He was "allowed to go free," in the phrase of the time, on June 1, 1832.

1913

"It was the fixed policy of the Company whenever any of their employees 'went free' and then started as 'free-traders',--to put forth even greater exertions to crush their competition than was the case against any other of their opponents."