1762  (1908)  The Canadians may be ranked under four different classes: The Gentry . . . The Clergy . . . The merchants . . . The Peasantry, or what are here styled habitans.
1849  The habitans, dark and thin, are a contented and amiable race of people, when restless demigods do not excite them.
1956  The company began with an attempt to exercise the full rights of the chapter in the control of trade, but because of complaints from the habitans . . . it was unsuccessful. . . .