A person who owned a colony given to them by the king was called a "proprietor." Proprietors were granted land and governing authority over a colony, often with the responsibility to manage it and ensure its profitability for the crown. This system was common in the early colonial period, particularly in places like the American colonies.
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Texas was originally owned by the swedes captured by the dutch and then controlled by the colony of Pennsylvania.
It was NYC that was a Dutch colony.
The New York Colony
A royal colony is governed directly by the crown and is owned by the king, who appoints a governor to oversee its administration. In contrast, a proprietary colony is owned by an individual or a group of individuals, known as proprietors, who have been granted land and governing rights by the king. This allows proprietors to manage the colony according to their own interests, often leading to different governance styles compared to royal colonies.
that colony was a proprietary colony. given by charter from the king of England to a proprieter.
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You would be called a proprietor
You would be called a proprietor
The people who owned and controlled all the land of a colony were called proprietors or Lord Proprietors. Initially land was divided up by giving "headrights",which means, anyone who had paid his own passage was given 100 acres. Those given the land grants, had to pay a fee to the Lord Proprietors.
A number of cars owned by the same person or company would be called a fleet of cars.
The Mass. bay colony is what MA was called while America was still owned by England.
Before we bought New York (once called New Amsterdam), it was a Dutch colony.
It was owned by the Dutch.
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The British owned the colony of Connecticut.
Yes. By magistrates of the Crown who owned the colony. Spain, France, England...