post-rider

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