c1830  (1889)  Several instances have occurred within the last season of tripmen and others forming engagements with different individuals at tee same time.
1865  Scores of tripmen are away to the interior on lengthened voyages in the Hudson's Bay Company's service and that of private freighters.
1963  Around their heads they wore the almost symbolic band of the tripman [of the York boats], a simple piece of calico to keep the perspiration from sliding down . . . into their eyes.