Proprietaries

Franklin charged that “Many bills have been presented to late Governors to lessen the number, and to regulate those nurseries of idleness and debauchery, but without success, from whence it seems evident, that so long as the Proprietaries of the Pennsylvania colony are interested in our ruin, ruined we must be.”

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Indians drunk following the settlement at Albany between the Six Nations and the Proprietaries.

The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography George D. Wolf

Proprietaries don't usually advertise in their own towns.

The Clarion Samuel Hopkins Adams 1914

His rights of government he left in trust to the Earls of Oxford and Powlett, to be disposed of; but no sale being ever made, the government, with the title of Proprietaries, devolved on the surviving sons of the second family.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 3 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

Proprietaries granted to one Sir Robert Mountgomery all the land between the rivers Savannah and Altamaha, "with proper jurisdictions, privileges, prerogatives, and franchises."

Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903

Page xx of the Proprietaries, the Assembly elected Cartwright, their Speaker, to act as Governor.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

For they tended rapidly to people Sir William's Carolina plantation with sober and industrious Quakers and Presbyterians &c., who bought land or paid rent at prices fixed by the Proprietaries.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

"But the difficulty of introducing the model (Locke's Constitution) did not diminish; and having failed to preserve order, Cartwright resolved to lay the state of the country before the Proprietaries, and embarked for England."

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

A few words express its outlines: a Council of twelve, six named by the Proprietaries and six chosen by the Assembly; an Assembly, composed of the Governor, the Council and delegates from the freeholders of the incipient settlements, formed a government worthy of popular confidence.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

Indeed, it was very plain to the common sense of the Proprietaries, that zeal for the Church north of 36° 30 ', if enforced by rigorous persecution, was as conducive to the peopling their Carolina territory, as the liberty of conscience which was granted south of that line.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884