Patroon

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

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patroon
(Dutch, patroon, a patron.) A grantee of land to be settled under the old Dutch governments of New Y...

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.