patroonships

These grand estates, called patroonships, were granted to stockholders who promised to have fifty adults living on the estate within four years.

History of American Women Maggiemac 2007

In the Dutch patroonships on the Hudson, settlers owed perpetual fealty to the patroon, and, more importantly, perpetual rent.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

In the Dutch patroonships on the Hudson, settlers owed perpetual fealty to the patroon, and, more importantly, perpetual rent.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

In the Dutch patroonships on the Hudson, settlers owed perpetual fealty to the patroon, and, more importantly, perpetual rent.

A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985

One of the great patroonships granted by the Dutch West India Company (p. 72) still remained in the Van Rensselaer family.

A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

Settlements were soon attempted and patroonships created; but the chief industry of New Netherland was the fur trade.

A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

[3] A number of these patroonships were established on the Hudson.

A Brief History of the United States John Bach McMaster 1892

Many of the common people, who had never before owned a foot of land, now began to be discontented with the town lots which had fallen to their shares; others who had snug farms and tobacco plantations found they had not sufficient elbow-room, and began to question the rights of the Indians to the vast regions they pretended to hold -- while the good Oloffe indulged in magnificent dreams of foreign conquest and great patroonships in the wilderness.

Knickerbocker's History of New York, Complete Washington Irving 1821