habitan

noun

1. (alt-of, obsolete)Obsolete form of habitant.

   “General met an emissary […] sent […] to ascertain the feelings of the habitans or French yeomanry.”

   “The paper offered by the Yankee speculator in exchange for colts, or cows, or grain, or butter, might please in New England or New York, but the habitan preferred silver dollars or gold doubloons, and would sell for nothing else.”

   “[…] not an habitan from Hamtramck to l'Anse Creuse had closed an eye the livelong night for the baying of the Huntsman's Hound […]”