DCHP-1 Online
lumbering party Obs. 
See 1832 quote.
- 1825 The number of lives that have been lost in the remote parts of the woods, among the lumbering parties, cannot be ascertained for some time to come; for it is feared that few are left to tell the tale.
- 1828 (1832) Several of these people from what is termed a "lumbering party, " composed of persons who are all either hired by a master lumberer, who pays them wages and finds them in provisions, or of individuals, who enter into an understanding with each other to have a joint interest in the proceeds of their labour.
- 1825 The number of lives that have been lost in the remote parts of the woods, among the lumbering parties, cannot be ascertained for some time to come; for it is feared that few are left to tell the tale.