Do we say settler or settlor

settler 312 occurrences

"One wrote at that time," says W.C. Hazlitt, "a letter to an acquaintance in one of the home counties which one would only write nowadays to a settler in the Colonies or a relative in India.

Mr. Anantani, himself an East African settler, showed in a forceful speech that the Indians were the pioneer settlers.

A settler, a fisherman named Matt Abrahamson, and his daughter Molly, found Tom.

Besides Mr. Heitman, the fur company's man, there was one other white settler in Kaguiac named Walch, who came to Kadiak twenty-seven years ago at the time of the first American military occupation, and though he had served in many an exciting battle in the Civil War, the Kadiak calm appealed to him.

Instantly his mind mirrored to him pictures he had seen in histories of painted savages burning a settler's cabin.

Similarly, if the heirs of a deceased settler should not reside in the colony, fifteen per cent was to be levied on the inheritance.

In an island almost a desert, and where the ground was left to the choice of the settler, she avoided those spots which were most fertile and most favourable to commerce; and seeking some nook of the mountain, some secret asylum, where she might live solitary and unknown, she bent her way from the town towards those rocks, where she wished to shelter herself as in a nest.

I told them that, for the future interests of their children, and to prevent the intrusion of any other settler, it was necessary they should divide between them the property of this wild sequestered valley, which is nearly twenty acres in extent.

A ghost risen out of the past to point the future, a man from the earliest days of cultivation, a settler in the wilds, nine hundred years old, and, withal, a man of the day.

"Down you go!" Browning followed the freshman closely, launching out again, with the full expectation that the second blow would be a settler.

Regarding our public domain as chiefly valuable to provide homes for the industrious and enterprising, I am not prepared to recommend any essential change in the land system, except by modifications in favor of the actual settler and an extension of the preemption principle in certain cases, for reasons and on grounds which will be fully developed in the reports to be laid before you.

The miner in his cabin hears The ripple we are hearing; It whispers soft to homesick ears Around the settler's clearing: In Sacramento's vales of corn,

At night they slept sometimes by a camp-fire in the woods, and sometimes in the rude hut of a settler or a hunter.

[Footnote 1: At one of their meetings it was resolved: "That we will afford protection to no abolitionist as a settler of this country.

The shores are low and with a gentle rise, and there is comparatively little appearance of agricultural activity, the settler having found the ground at the back of the rise better suited for farming purposes.

It is quite certain that, for the first few years, every settler must be mainly indebted for the means of subsistence of himself and family to the produce of the soil; beyond this the country itself, for the first year, will afford him nothing, with the exception, perhaps, of a little fishthe rest must be raised by the labour of the ploughman and the horticulturist.

Young growth follows the American settlement, since the settler keeps off those annual burnings.

Letter of a New England settler in 1773.

At length, having scoured the neighborhood without success, Mr. Lytle remembered an old settler who lived alone, far up the valley.

Rain now set in, and the grain, from neglect grew in the head as it stood, and many a settler ate poor bread all winter in consequence of his neighborly kindness in the midst of harvest.

Every house was a new settler, and hardly one who had yet produced anything to live upon.

We now entered our skiff again and went on down the great river till we came to a place nearly opposite Mineral Point, when we gave our boat to a poor settler, and with guns and bundles on our backs took a straight shoot for home on foot.

Stockton and I visited Mr. Roland, an old settler who lived south of San Gabriel river, and staid all night with him, finding him very sociable and hospitable.

Upon the hill I met Judge Watson, the father of Watsonville, and a Mr. Graham, an old settler and land owner, and on this occasion he pulled a sheet of ancient, smoky looking paper from beneath his arm, pointed to a dozen or so of written lines in Spanish and then with a flourish of the precious document in Watson's face dared him to beat that, or get him off his land.

All the troubles in the marine end of this shop belong on my capable shoulders, old settler.

settlor 1 occurrences

giver, grantor &c v.; donor, feoffer^, settlor.

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