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  • Eaton also owed Asa Wilcox $20 for service as a post-rider, stemming from his days printing The

    Advocating The Man: Masculinity, Organized Labor, and the Household in New York, 1800-1840 2006

  • Each week a post-rider carried the same news to every surrounding township.

    Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

  • "I had the pattern cut along the measurements the post-rider brought, but there will certainly need to be alterations."

    Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

  • A third post-rider remained a dot above the horizon, a remote witness.

    Soldiers Live Cook, Glen 2000

  • Although we had overtaken a small wagon loaded with covered baskets and had passed a post-rider headed back in the direction of Tellura, the road was lightly used.

    The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

  • When we crossed another road, running east-west " or so it appeared to my limited senses " I encountered no more wagons, and but a single horseman, a post-rider, I suspected.

    The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

  • I nudged the apprentice, and we stepped toward the shop fronts as the single post-rider trotted toward the palace.

    The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991

  • I find no record of a post-rider passing through Groton, during the period immediately preceding the establishment of the post-office; but there was doubtless such a person who used to ride on horseback, equipped with saddle-bags, and delivered at regular intervals the weekly newspapers and letters along the way.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various

  • History of New Ipswich, New Hampshire (page 129), a post-rider, by the name of Balch, rode from Boston to Keene one week and back the next.

    The Bay State Monthly — Volume 1, No. 2, February, 1884 Various

  • Quincy became post-rider for her between Braintree and Boston, eleven miles, -- not a light or easy task for the nine-year-old boy, with the unsettled roads and unsettled times.

    Woman's Life in Colonial Days Carl Holliday

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