patroonship
- a word derived from patroon.
Example Sentences
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The largest of these, the manor, or patroonship, of Rensselaerwyck went to Kiliaen van Rensselaer in 1630, and contained approximately one million acres on both banks of the upper Hudson.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The English continued the Dutch patroonship system, granting large estates to a favored few families.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
In return, the shareholder who gained the patroonship promised to pay for the passage of at least thirty Dutch farmers to populate the colony.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 30, 2014
Large estates.—During the Dutch régime many large estates had been created, the most important being the patroonship of Van Rensselaer about Albany.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
Did any aspiring adventurer seek to leap at a bound to the exalted position of patroonship?
From History of the Great American Fortunes, Vol. I Conditions in Settlement and Colonial Times by Gustavus, Myers
