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them  demonstrative adjective Those. [OED dates this usage from the 14th century; DARE labels this usage “scattered, but chiefly South, South Midland”]

1774 Dunmore’s War 143 Them Stragling little partys will do Abundance of Damage. 1826 Royall Sketches 58 [They say] “put them cheers,” (chairs) out of the road. 1861 (in 1980 Clark Civil War Diary 29) In capturing of them Yankeys we got 12 fine peices of artillery and a large amount of commissary’s. 1939 Hall Coll (Deep Creek NC) They was just enough of us to fill them three benches. 1953 Hall Coll (Gatlinburg TN) The ones that went the other way into the mountain, they'd killed them turkeys. 1973 Church of God 13 Them pinto beans, they got a lot of acid in them. 1998 Dante OHP-11 She used to come and belonged to my church. Yeah, I knew all of them people.