settler

[set-ler, -l-er]

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noun

a person or thing that settles.

a person who settles in a new country or area.

Origin:
1590–1600; settle¹ + -er¹

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settler (ˈsɛtlə)

—n
	a person who settles in a new country or a colony

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"In 1694 a law was passed "that every settler who deserted a town for fear of the Indians should forfeit all his rights therein." But now, at any rate, as I have frequently observed, a man may desert the fertile frontier territories of truth and justice, which are the State's best lands, for fear of far more insignificant foes, without forfeiting any of his civil rights therein. Nay, townships are granted to deserters, and the General Court, as I am sometimes inclined to regard it, is but a deserters' camp itself."

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