proprietary colony


nounAmerican History.
  1. any of certain colonies, as Maryland and Pennsylvania, that were granted to an individual or group by the British crown and that were granted full rights of self-government.

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How to use proprietary colony in a sentence

  • It also lay within the limits of the charter of 1681, by which the proprietary colony of Pennsylvania had been founded.

British Dictionary definitions for proprietary colony

proprietary colony

noun
  1. US history any of various colonies, granted by the Crown in the 17th century to a person or group of people with full governing rights

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