Patroonship Definition

Patroonship Sentence Examples

• It had been a part of the Dutch patroonship of Pavonia granted to Michael Pauw in 1630.

• Over this tract, the first patroonship granted in the colony, he had the usual powers and rights of a patroon.

• A portion of it was regranted to David Pietersen de Vries in 1636 and in 1642 the remainder was erected into a patroonship and granted to Cornelis Melyn.

• In 1630 the Dutch West India Company granted the island to Michael Pauw as a part of his patroonship of Pavonia, and it was bought at this time from the Indians for "some duffels, kettles, axes, hoes, wampum, drilling awls, jew's harps, and divers other small wares"; but before Pauw had established a settlement upon it he sold his title back to the company.