patroonship

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  The position or office of a patroon; landownership (originally of a Dutch colony).
 * 2) * 2003 (revised),, A People's History of the United States, HarperCollins 2005, p. 211:
 * It was a protest against the patroonship system, which went back to the 1600s when the Dutch ruled New York, a system where […] ‘a few families, intricately intermarried, controlled the destinies of three hundred thousand people and ruled in almost kingly splendor near two million acres of land.’
 * 1)  An estate run by a patroon, or under a similar system.
 * 1)  An estate run by a patroon, or under a similar system.