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Meaning of "seawant" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF SEAWANT

ˈsiːwɒnt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEAWANT

noun
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Seawant is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SEAWANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Sewant

Sewant is the black and/or dark purple black shell bead system of the 17th century in Nieuw Nederlandt of what is currently the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Delaware. This fiat currency system was introduced to the English at Plymouth Colony Plantations in 1627. One black Sewant is equal to two white wampum. The sewant is tied to the stiver, denarius of England, ore, daler, real, livre. 20 stiver = 24d or 1 stiver = 1.2d. Sewant is the Dutch rendering of what the Native Americans in the 1600s of what is now New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts called the purple and white parts of the Quahog shell when made into beads, used as money and trade between the Dutch, Native Americans, English, French, and other people. The money was of the Dutch money system, and translated into the different European and Native American trade and money systems at the time, around the 1620s to 1660s.

Definition of seawant in the English dictionary

The definition of seawant in the dictionary is the Native American name for silver coins and, formerly, the shell beads used as currency.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SEAWANT

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEAWANT

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WORDS THAT END LIKE SEAWANT

ant · assistant · cant · constant · consultant · elegant · enfant · giant · grant · important · infant · instant · irrelevant · meant · on the instant · pendant · plant · relevant · restaurant · significant

Synonyms and antonyms of seawant in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «seawant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEAWANT

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The translations of seawant from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «seawant» in English.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEAWANT»

Discover the use of seawant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to seawant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Brief Description of New York: Formerly Called New ...
The process of trade was this ; the Dutch and English sold for seawant to the Indians of the interior, their knives, combs, scissors, needles, awls, looking- glasses, hatchets, guns, black cloth, and other articles of aboriginal traffic, (the Indians at ...
Daniel Denton, Gabriel Furman, 1845
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The Market Book. Containing a Historical Account of the ...
+ Many of their productions were sold for cash, or such currency as was then recognized as such; a great deal of which was Indian money, called “ wampum,” or seawant, (or zeawant,) “ half-beavers, and beaver” skins. The common value of ...
Thomas Farrington DE VOE, 1862
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the historical magazine and notes and queries concerning the ...
family, must serve between the Buyer and the Seller, the Director General and the Councillors have come to the conclusion not to reduce the Seawant, but the necessaries, such as Bread, Beer, and Wine ; and to fix them according to the ...
‎1867
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Historical Magazine: And Notes and Queries Concerning the ...
gWhereas, with great concern, we have observed, both now and for a long time past, the depreciation and corruption of the loose Seawant, among which there are current many that are not perforated and half-finished ; and others made of ...
‎1867
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Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York ...
Wherein, according to our best ability, desirous of making provision in this emergency, we have resolved and determined, for the furtherance of business and the general good. that from this time forth, no loose seawant shall be current, nor be ...
New York (N.Y.). Common Council, 1844
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The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the ...
Whereas, with great concern, we have observed, both now and for a long time past, the depreciation and corruption of the loose Seawant, among which there are current many that are not perforated and half-finished ; and others made of ...
Henry Reed Stiles, Henry Barton Dawson, 1867
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Historical Magazine: And Notes and Queries Concerning the ...
Whereas, with great concern, we have observed, both now and for a long time past, the depreciation and corruption of the loose Seawant, among which there are current many that are not perforated and half-finished ; and others made of ...
John Ward Dean, George Folsom, John Gilmary Shea, 1867
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A brief description of New York, formerly called New Netherlands
Sad quid rum mortalis pectora cogis, duri sacri fumes." The love of money is the root of all evil, &.c.” (See Hubbard's History of New-England.) Although the general distinction of this seawant was black and white, yet that in use in New- England ...
Daniel Denton
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A Brief Description of New York
Although the general distinction of this seawant was black and white, yet that in use in New-England was black, blue and white ; and that of the Five Nations of Indians was of a purple colour. A string of this shell money, one fathom long, varied ...
Daniel Denton, 2009
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The Historical Magazine, and Notes and Queries Concerning ...
gWhereas, with great concern, we have observed, both now and for along time past, the depreciation and corruption of the loose Seawant, among which there are current many that are not perforated and half-finished; and others made of ...
‎1867
REFERENCE
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