DCHP-3

lumbering party

Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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See 1832 quote.

Quotations

1825
The number of lives that have been lost in the remote parts of the woods, among the lumbering parties, cannot be ascertained for some time to come; for it is feared that few are left to tell the tale.
1828
Several of these people from what is termed a "lumbering party, " composed of persons who are all either hired by a master lumberer, who pays them wages and finds them in provisions, or of individuals, who enter into an understanding with each other to have a joint interest in the proceeds of their labour.