Colonist Definition

Colonist Sentence Examples

• His first ancestor in America may possibly have been Captain Isaac Maddyson, a colonist of 1623 mentioned by John Smith as an excellent Indian fighter.

• Every colonist was enrolled either in the Milicias or Ordenanzas.

• An industrious colonist could purchase a small farm on the estate and make himself independent in two years.

• Each colonist not only paid him a fixed rent, usually in kind, but had to share with him the increase of the stock and to have the grain ground at his mill.

• Cullinan (a Cape colonist and one of the chief contractors in the building of Johannesburg), whose faith in the richness of the ground was speedily justified.