Among these were Samuel Blommaert, one of the chief patroons in the Delaware region, and Peter Minuit, a Walloon, once governor at New Amsterdam.
In 1635 the patroons owning lands on both shores of Delaware Bay and River sold their possessions to the Dutch West India Company, and a small garrison was sent by the latter to re-occupy Fort Nassau.
One of the last of the patroons was Stephen Van Rensselaer, who died at the age of 75 on Jan.
The patroons encased themselves in an environment of pomp and awe.
The power of the patroons over their tenants, or serfs, was almost unlimited.
The consequence was that the merchants became the burgher class; and all the records of the time seem to prove conclusively that the merchants were servile instruments of the patroons whose patronage and favor they assiduously courted.
So, in this final struggle, passed away the last vestiges of the sway of the all-powerful patroons of old.
These limits would include but a small portion of the territory which the patroons claimed by right of purchase from the Indians.
The patroons were now fearful that the governor would fulfill his threat of extending his authority over the extensive territory whose jurisdiction the Charter of Privileges had entrusted exclusively to the patroons.
Patroons and colonists were "to find out ways and means whereby they may support a Minister and Schoolmaster.
Although the other patroons had surrendered their rights, the Dutch governors, officials, and merchants had acquired vast estates, which continued in their families after the English occupation.
The fur trade was reserved by the company, but the patroons were allowed to trade on the coast from Newfoundland to Florida and to ship goods to neutral powers; they could also engage in fishing and the making of salt.
He quarreled with the English in New England, as well as with the patroons in his own colony.
King of England, who has done nothing for me, save to make a knight of me to curry favor with the Dutch patroons in New York province--or state, as they call it now!
He waxed pathetic over the danger to his vast estate; he pointed out the conservative attitude of the great patroons and lords of the manors of Livingston, Cosby, Phillipse, Van Rensselaer, and Van Cortlandt.
Neither patroons nor Company concerned themselves about the people.
The patroons were becoming more powerful than their creators, and took things more and more into their own lordly hands.
It is not surprising that suggestions to this effect from the humbler members of the community were not cordially embraced by either the patroons or their creators at home; in fact, it was still-born.
The patroons lived on their big estates, rich, hospitable families, much like the wealthy planters of Virginia.
In spite of constant danger from Indians and their great distance from Europe the patroons lived in a certain magnificence, and grew in power down to the time of the Revolution.
The Dutch West India Company made arrangements for extensively colonizing the New Netherlands, and passed a charter of exemptions and privileges to encourage patroons (or patrons) to make settlements.
But neither the Dutch patroons who settled on the Delaware in 1631, nor the Swedes who came later, nor the Dutch who annexed New Sweden to New Netherland, nor the English who conquered the Dutch, paid any regard to Baltimore's rights.
The settlers quarreled with the Indians, who in revenge massacred them and drove off the garrison at Fort Nassau; whereupon the patroons sold their rights to the Dutch West India Company.
It may well be supposed that such a tempting offer did not go a-begging, and a number of patroons were soon settled along the Hudson and on the banks of the Delaware (1631), where they founded a town near Lewes.
The one thing that the patroons were not permitted to do was to collect the furs of animals, for these were very valuable and the Company claimed them all.
In this way there would be no patroons to act as masters.
Governor Minuit was himself accused of aiding the patroons to make money at the expense of the West India Company, and of taking his share of the profit; and finally, the Company ordered him to return to Holland.
The farms established by these patroonswere to belong to them and to their families after them.
Urged by many complaints, the States-General set on foot an investigation of the Director, the patroons, and the West India Company itself, with the result that in 1632 Minuit was recalled and the power of the patroons was limited.
The patroons were entitled to dispose of their grants by will, and they were free to traffic along the coast of New Netherland for all goods except furs, which were to be the special perquisite of the West India Company.
But the reader who dwells too long on the picturesque aspects of manors and patroonships is likely to forget that New Netherland was peopled for the most part by colonists who were neither patroons nor lords of manors.
The West India Company in turn, with a view to stimulating colonization, granted to certain members known as patroons manorial rights frequently in conflict with the authority of the Company.
If there's anything in the cellar the old patroons put down we haven't tried, sir, I beg to defer the sampling.
When the earliest patroons had made known to the West India Company their intention of planting colonies in New Netherland, they had issued attractive maps to promote their colonization projects.
The blood of the patroons flowed sluggishly through the land baron's veins, but his French extraction danced in every fiber of his being.
We have our land barons, descendants of the patroons and holders of thousands of acres.
Time was, lad, when your ancestors, the lord patroons of Rensselaerswyck, were makers and masters of the law in this their colonie.
He told me what I knew, that there was bitter feeling against the patroons in that vicinity and that I might encounter opposition to the service of the writs.
After a little talk I told him frankly that I thought the patroons should seek a friendly settlement with their tenants.
We must not forget that the patroons are our clients," he remarked.
The pecuniary losses attending these two unfortunate expeditions induced the patroonsof Zwanendael, two years later, to dispose of their right and title to these tracts of land to the West India Company.
Now it became an absolute necessity to discover what privileges had been held by the patroons under the Dutch government, and, upon examining the records, Dr.
To the anti-rent troubles in this State and to the researches into the rights of the patroons arising from them, we are indebted to the best work on New Netherland which has yet been written.
Passing the Patroons Club it occurred to him that hot whiskey might extinguish his cough.
If she went to the Patroons Club, I did not go with her; I did not see her; I don't know whether or not you took her.
I'm going to put you through The Patroons Club by April.
I--I naturally conclude that no governor of the Patroons Club feels very kindly toward me.
Since then she had also told Mortimer, but he had taken no steps to do justice to Siward, although he, Mortimer, was still a governor of the Patroons Club.
But it only made me like him; and no doubt that actress he took to the Patroons is better company than he finds in nine places out of ten among his own sort.
He was finally elected a member of the Patroons Club, without serious opposition; he had dined twice with the Kemp Ferralls; he and Major Belwether were seen together at the Caithness dance, and in the Caithness box at the opera.
Didn't you promise me all sorts of things when I wanted to go to your friend Mr. Siward, and explain that it was not his fault I got into the Patroons Club?
You know that the Patroons have dropped me, and you know what for.
They exchanged carefully impersonal views on Siward's good qualities for a moment or two; then Marion said bluntly: "Do you know anything in particular about thatPatroons Club affair?
You're a patroon; and all patroonsare aristocrats and hateful.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "patroons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
