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Now the murder of a native government headman is a serious matter in those parts.

What Is To Become of the British Protectorates? 1944

And whereas in Taiwan the cabessas were selected by the Chinese community itself, in Batavia the headman was appointed by the company. 23 His job was to act as a representative of the Chinese population in discussions with the Dutch leadership in Batavia, to execute the company's instructions among the Chinese community, and to administer justice among the Chinese.

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

He also made him a present of an oldish horse which he had got; he had heard that the headman was a priest of the sun, and so he could fatten up the beast and sacrifice him; otherwise he was afraid it might die outright, for it had been injured by the long marching.

Anabasis 2007

"Oh, Sandi!" called the headman of the boat, as she went lumbering over the clear green swell, "remember us, your servants!"

Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903

The headman is a certain William Pine, whose grandfather,

The English Novel George Saintsbury 1889

He also made him a present of an oldish horse which he had got; he had heard that the headman was a priest of the sun, and so he could fatten up the beast and sacrifice him; otherwise he was afraid it might die outright, for it had been injured by the long marching.

Anabasis 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874

"Uncle Cæsar," the trusted "headman" upon the plantation of Colonel Marshall - Mrs. Henry's father - had once partaken of the Lord's Supper in the church in which his master was an elder.

Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910

In Palmyra, Hairan was dead, and young Odhainat, his brother, was now Septimus Odaenathus -- "headman" of the city and to all appearances the firm friend of Rome.

Historic Girls Elbridge Streeter Brooks 1874

When a "headman" emerges in a hunter-gatherer group, it seems to be that sort of person most of the time.

ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science 2010

Simultaneously with the construction of works for the advancement of agriculture, the patriarchal village system, copied from that which existed from the earliest ages in India [1], was established in the newly settled districts; and each hamlet, with its governing "headman" its artisans, its barber, its astrologer and washerman, was taught to conduct its own affairs by its village council; to repair its tanks and watercourses, and to collect two harvests in each year by the combined labour of the whole village community.

Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 (of 2) James Emerson Tennent 1836