Lexicographical Neighbors of Proprietaries
Literary usage of Proprietaries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1859)
"It was not, as the proprietaries represent it, an address to the public. ...
As to rank, the proprietaries may remember, that the crown has likewise been ..."
2. The History of New Jersey: From Its Discovery by Europeans, to the Adoption by Thomas Francis Gordon (1834)
"Instances in the history of the Carolinas, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, demonstrate,
that the proprietaries regarded their functions less as a trust, ..."
3. Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902: Based by Benson John Lossing, John Fiske, Woodrow Wilson (1901)
"The governor (Denny) refused to sanction it, because it would heavily tax the
proprietaries of the province. He asked them to frame a bill providing ..."
4. An Historical Review of the Constitution and Government of Pensylvania [sic by Richard Jackson, Benjamin Franklin (1759)
"To the End, therefore, that the good Intentions of the proprietaries in the faid
Gift ... and was given in Confederation of their [the proprietaries] being ..."
5. The History of the United States of America by Richard Hildreth (1877)
"When the Carolina proprietaries had formerly attempted to establish the counties
as election districts for their southern province, instead of having the ..."
6. History of the Colonization of the United States by George Bancroft (1886)
"At first the proprietaries acquiesced in a government which had little ...
The continued struggles with the proprietaries hastened the emancipation of the ..."
7. The Works of Benjamin Franklin: Containing Several Political and Historical by Benjamin Franklin (1882)
"I. REPRESENTATION OF THE ASSEMBLY TO THE proprietaries, REQUESTING THEM TO BEAR A
... MAY IT PLEASE THE proprietaries | The first settlers of this province ..."
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