proprietary colony

noun

, American History.

any of certain colonies, as Maryland and Pennsylvania, that were granted to an individual or group by the British crown and that were granted full rights of self-government.

proprietary colony

history any of various colonies, granted by the Crown in the 17th century to a person or group of people with full governing rights

It also lay within the limits of the charter of 1681, by which the proprietary colony of Pennsylvania had been founded.

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