The Etymology of Caucus

[Stephen Goranson]

E.g., another "caucas" spelling appears in Headline: [No Headline]; Article
Type: Advertisements
Paper: Boston Evening-Post, published as Boston Evening Post.; Date:
02-14-1763;
Issue: 1432; Page: [3]; Location: Boston, Massachusetts [America's Historical
Newspapers]. This is the same month and year of the OED earliest quote, from
the diary of John Adams, (and the newspaper publisher explained that it was to
be published last week).
...to determine whether it be agreeable to "OUR SIDE" [dagger or cross
sign]....

[dagger or cross sign footnote;] Caucas.

Stephen Goranson
http://www.duke.edu/~goranson

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