A resident. Sc. 1678, 1875, N.E.D.
1812. They were ceded … as an appendage to the possession of every residenter in the vilage.—Brackenridge, ‘Views of Louisiana’ (1814), p. 127. (N.E.D.)
1838. By the present degenerate race of villagers, those early days are referred to as a “golden age” in their history, and the “old residenters” as wonderful beings.—E. Flagg, ‘The Far West,’ ii. 190 (N.Y.).
1840. For while the majority of the old “residenters” were freeholders, constituting a large and independent yeomanry, yet among those of British descent there were extensive feudal proprietors, holding their patents immediately from the crown, who could humber a powerful array of dependants.—C. F. Hoffman, ‘Greyslaer,’ i. 23.
1854. He said ‘he was an old residenter, and he had in fact grown up with the country.’—H. H. Riley, ‘Puddleford,’ p. 83 (N.Y.).
1856. One of the Jackson county boys, an old residenter.—Weekly Oregonian, Jan. 5.
