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Definition of Seawant
1. seawan [n -S] - See also: seawan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seawant
Literary usage of Seawant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities by John Gilmary Shea, Henry Reed Stiles (1867)
"Whereas, with great concern, we have observed, both now and for a long time past,
the depreciation and corruption of the loose seawant, among which there ..."
2. A Brief Description of New York: Formerly Called New Netherlands, with the by Daniel Denton (1845)
"Although the general distinction of this seawant was black and white, ...
The process of trade was this ; the Dutch and English sold for seawant to the ..."
3. Historic Tales of Olden Time: Concerning the Early Settlement and by John Fanning Watson (1832)
"For numerous years, while coin was scarce or unnecessary, it was the custom to
pay off the company's officers, and even the clergy too, in seawant or ..."
4. New York 170 Years Ago: With a View, and Explanatory Notes by Joseph White Moulton (1843)
"seawant had become scarce, so as to require a new regulation of its value in
June, 1673; when it was decreed in Council that instead of eight white beads ..."
5. The Records of New Amsterdam from 1653 to 1674 Anno Domini by Edmund Bailey O'Callaghan, New York (N.Y.) (1897)
"pay to this P" for the Remaining part of the Earthen waere the suine of twoo
hundred fourty one Gilders in seawant, out of wc.h the Court doe allowe to the ..."
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