DCHP-3

private trade

Fur Trade, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the practice among company officers and, at times, other employees of trading with the Indians on a private basis.

Quotations

1671
That Capt. Guillam & all others imployed this voyage bee examined what private trade hath been by them or any of them in the Countrey, or by the mariners under them. . . .
1821
Chastellain & Lamallice I find are renewing their old practice of carrying on Private Trade with the Indians.
1942
. . . both captains and the crews and the Frenchmen took part in private trade on their own accounts, and . . . the Company conducted a steady campaign against the practice.