Colonial Occupations
- ALMONER Giver of charity

- ANANUENSIS Secretary or Stenographer

- BLUESTOCKING Female writer

- BONIFACE Keeper of an inn

- BURGOMASTER Mayor

- CHANDLER Candlemaker

- CHIFFONIER Ragpicker

- COLPORTEUR Peddler of books

- CORDWAINER Made shoes

- COSTERMONGER Peddler of fruits and vegetables

- CROWNER Coroner

- DOCKER Stevedore

- DOWSER Water finder

- FLETCHER Made bows and arrows

- FULLER Cleaned and finished cloth

- GAOLER Jailer

- GLAZIER Window glassman

- HATCHELER Combed or carded flax

- HOOPER Made hoops for casks

- HOSTLER (or Ostler) Groomed horses

- LEECH or SAWBONES Physician

- MANCIPLE Steward

- MINTMASTER Issued local currency

- PEREGRINATOR Itinerant wanderer

- PERUKER Wigmaker

- PETTIFOGGER Shyster lawyer

- PUMBUM WORKER Plumber

- RATTLEWATCH Town watchman

- SCRUTINEER Election judge

- SHRIEVE Sheriff

- SNOBSCAT Repaired shoes

- SORTOR Tailor

- STUFFGOWNSMAN Junior barrister

- TIDE WAITER Customs inspector

- TIPSTAFF Policeman

- VULCAN Blacksmith

- WEBSTER Operated looms

- WHARFINGER Owner of a wharf

- WHITEWING Streetsweeper
This information from "Old Farmer's Almanac," reprinted
in Dec. 1986
by "Roots Digest," Ronald A. Bremer, Publisher
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