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Term: Hundred Associates, Company of.

Definition:

French investors who had the sole legal right to buy and sell furs, which they licensed to individual traders; unlicensed black market traders (coureurs de bois) could be jailed, fined and have their property confiscated.

View articles related to the fur trade at Wisconsin Magazine of History Archives.