| Summary: | dealer n * Maybe Pocius has seen this inscription. Another stone [in the Placentia graveyard] records the departure of a certain Richard Walsh in 1770, 'who carried on a most extensive trade in this harbour with the greatest credit, and died in the 53rd year of his age feelingly lamented by his Planters and Dealers.' [prob our sense 1, rather than sense 2, esp because Placentia Bay is one of the areas with strong reports of dealer as a kind of agent or middleman for large merchant house, rather than a fisherman] our earliest date is 1850 GMS Feb 81 Used I and Sup Used I and Sup Used I AGENT, CREDIT, TRUCK, TRUCK SYSTEM Checked by Cathy Wiseman on Mon 19 Jan 2015; Found in DNE but no stamp
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