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From: Robin Sabino [mailto:sabinro@auburn.edu]
List Editor: Steven Mintz <sm3031@COLUMBIA.EDU>
Editor's Subject: Re: Term macqueron, manqueron, etc.?
Author's Subject: Re: Term macqueron, manqueron, etc.?
Date Written: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:15:26 -0500
Date Posted: Sat, 13 Nov 2009 05:15:26 -0500

The term manqueron also appears in the head tax rolls (land Lister) for
the Danish West Indies in records written in both Danish and Dutch. It
refers to someone who is disabled or in ill health.

Robin Sabino
Associate Professor
Department of English
9030 Haley Center
Auburn University, Alabama 36849
www.auburn.edu/~sabinro

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