The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, Vol. 2 of 3 (Classic Reprint)

CHAPTER I GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE LATER PROPRIETARY PROVINCES Our review of the provinces which were founded by trading companies at the beginning of English colonization revealed the fact that they originated in a joint-stock system. That system in the colonics themselves gave rise, for a time and in varying degrees, to joint management both of land and trade. It was in that way that the incorporators or adventurers sought to overcome the great difficulties of settling a new continent and to insure, so far as it was possible, a return to themselves. Joint management of land and trade, so far as it existed and was characteristic of the provinces as such, was the reflection of the joint-stock system under which they were created. More than that cannot be safely aflirmed respecting it. It developed among a people whose ancestors for centuries had lived under a system of private property, though they were acquainted with various survivals of a time when a considerable pa<br/><br/>Table of Contents<br/><br/>PART THIRD; THE PROPRIETARY PROVINCE IN ITS LATER FORMS; CHAPTER I General Characteristics of the Latek Pkopribtary Provinces; l'AGE; The joint management of land and trade in the early provinces was a reflection of the joint-stock system under which they were; founded 3; Though American colonization was begun by corporations, it was; not continued by them 4; Individual proprietors or hoards of proprietors take their place 4; Feudal characteristics emphasized in later proprietary provinces 4; The county palatine of Durham 5; The charter of Maryland 8; Charters of Maine and Carolina • 11; Charters of New York and Pennsylvania 11; Differences between a proprietary province and a corporate colony 12; The province was normally monarchical in organization 13; Tendencies which facilitated the democratizing of the provinco 13; CHAPTER 11 Tub Land Systkm of tut: Later Proprietary Provinces; Distinctions between land system of Ne