as the plural of house. This old form is still used by the illiterate in the interior of New England, as also in the State of New York. It is provincial in various parts of England.
That day at housen so she stopped
She was behind for dinner.--Essex Dialect, p.14.
It is enacted by the court and authoritie thereof, that henceforth no person or persons shall permit any meetings of the Quakers to bee in his house or housing.--Plymouth Colony Laws, 1661.
A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
Household furniture. On the first day of May, at 1w o'clock, if the tenant isn't out, an officer go...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.