Proprietary colonies were a type of colony in English America which existed during the early modern period. In English overseas possessions established...

English rule after the surrender of Fort Amsterdam in 1664, becoming a proprietary colony. The English renamed the province after the island of Jersey in the...

established in 1681 as a proprietary colony Colony of Virginia, established in 1607 as a proprietary colony; chartered as a royal colony in 1624. Province of...

On January 2, 1755, Georgia officially ceased to be a proprietary colony and became a royal colony. From 1732 until 1758, the minor civil divisions were...

were granted to a particular individual; these were known as proprietary colonies. Proprietary colonies in America were governed by a Lord Proprietor, who...

The Delaware Colony, officially known as the three "Lower Counties on the Delaware", was a semiautonomous region of the proprietary Province of Pennsylvania...

1632 as a proprietary colony granted to Cecil Calvert, the English 2nd Baron Baltimore, whose father, George, had long sought to found a colony in the New...

Direct rule over Northern Ireland Legislative council Proprietary colony Self-governing colony "British Overseas Territories Act 2002". Gov.Uk. Archived...

Carolina, originally known as Albemarle Province, was a proprietary colony and later royal colony of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712...

Pennsylvania was one of the two major Restoration colonies. The proprietary colony's charter remained in the Penn family until they were later ousted...

The Province of New York was a British proprietary colony and later a royal colony on the northeast coast of North America from 1664 to 1783. In 1664...

English colonies in North America, the other classes being proprietary colony and royal colony. These colonies were operated under a corporate charter given...

the lords proprietor; they planned for a Christian colony. Originally a single proprietary colony, the northern and southern sections grew apart over...

America included Connecticut Colony, the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Plymouth Colony, and the Province of New...

and government of an English colony in the 17th century. The plural of the term is "lords proprietors" or "lords proprietary". In the beginning of the European...

a proprietary in Virginia (a claim that would only be valid were the king to return to power). While under the jurisdiction of the Virginia Colony, the...

alliances between the colony's various ethnic, religious, proprietary, and landowning groups. During this period, the population of the colony began to expand...

The Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations was one of the original Thirteen Colonies established on the east coast of America, bordering the...

been a state, since they served as the capital of a predecessor territory, colony, or republic. Boston, Massachusetts, has been a capital city since 1630;...

The Transylvania Company investors hoped to establish a British proprietary colony by purchasing the Kentucky lands from the Cherokee who had earlier...

to the land, but Charles II ruled the claim invalid. Although the Lost Colony on Roanoke Island was the first English attempt at settlement in the Carolina...

and East Jersey were two sections of New Jersey. The development of the colony of New Sweden in the lower Delaware Valley began in 1638. Most of the Swedish...

The Province of Maryland was a proprietary colony, in the hands of the Calvert family, who held it from 1633 to 1689, and again from 1715 to 1776. George...

his brother, the Duke of York (later King James II of England) as a proprietary colony. James II later granted the land between the Hudson River and the...

Pennsylvania was a proto-constitution for the Province of Pennsylvania, a proprietary colony granted to William Penn by Charles II of England. The Frame of Government...

"right to possess the land forever", with the island being declared a proprietary colony[citation needed] Gardiner was given the title of Lord of the Manor...

Maryland began as a proprietary colony of the Catholic Calvert family, the Lords Baltimore under a royal charter, and its first eight governors were appointed...

First settled by the English colonists in 1607 at Jamestown in the Virginia Colony, the county was formally created in 1634 as James City Shire by order of...

establishment of the Plymouth Colony, the Province of New Hampshire, the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the New Haven Colony, and the Province of Maine. Sir...

regarded Rupert's Land as their proprietary colony. In 1670, King Charles II of England in his grant creating the proprietary colony Rupert's Land defined its...