proprietary colony

Barbados was in those days a proprietary colony of Great Britain.

By 1720 the process of transition from a proprietary colony to a crown colony had begun.

These three types were royal colonies, proprietary colonies, and corporate colonies.

Proprietary Governors were individuals authorized to govern proprietary colonies.

Other areas, like Maryland and Carolina, were proprietary colonies, owned and operated by one or a few individuals.

The original royal patent of 1639 gave Gardiner the "right to possess the land forever", with the island being declared a proprietary colony.

Pennsylvania was founded in 1681 as a proprietary colony of the Quaker William Penn.

A number of colonies in the 16th and 17th centuries were granted to a particular individual; these are known as proprietary colonies.

Pennsylvania (which included Delaware), New Jersey, and Maryland were proprietary colonies.

Seeking religious and political tolerance, he and others founded "Providence Plantations" as a free proprietary colony.

In 1702, East Jersey and West Jersey were united as a royal, rather than proprietary colony.

As a proprietary colony, Penn governed Pennsylvania, yet its citizens were still subject to the English crown and laws.

Specifically, British colonization of North America was by charter colony or proprietary colony.

As Barbados' economy grew, Barbados developed a large measure of local autonomy through its founding as a proprietary colony.

Henderson intended to create a proprietary colony known as Transylvania, but many Kentucky settlers did not recognize Transylvania's authority over them.

By 1776 Maryland had been engulfed in the American Revolution and the Calverts would lose control over their proprietary colony for good.

By 1675, the region become the proprietary colony of East Jersey (establishing a border with New York State, which was formalized in 1738).

It evolved from the upper house of the colonial assembly created in 1650 when Maryland was a proprietary colony controlled by Cecilius Calvert.

The much smaller Maryland was a proprietary colony founded by Roman Catholic gentry, supported by a Protestant underclass.

The Lords Baltimore lost control of their proprietary colony and for the next 25 years Maryland would be ruled directly by the British Crown.

The men hoped to purchase land from the Cherokees on the Kentucky side of the Appalachian Mountains and establish a British proprietary colony.

At Bermuda Hundred, he cultivated and exported several non-native strains of tobacco, providing the proprietary Colony with a crucial cash crop to export.

The next year King James dissolved the Virginia Company and its college, seizing its assets and transforming the proprietary colony into a royal one.

The land was granted by Charles I to Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, as a proprietary colony.

John Berry (c 1619-c 1712) was a Deputy Governor of the Proprietary Colony of New Jersey.