In a message dated 6/12/2003 11:58:22 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > Hi, > I just ran across a term used in the 1880 Census of Salem, Nj. Under > Occupation it listed one of my relatives as Huckster. I know what the word > means today. What did it mean then? > Robin- Same thing--someone who sold wares -- usually traveling the streets and selling things from the back of a wagon as they went along. Joan