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	US Constitution, Antecedents, PS201H-5A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		In each of the three proprietary colonies (Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware), the Governor (1) was appointed by the Proprietor of the colony, (2) functioned as the chief deputy and representative of the Proprietor in the colony, and (3) was expected to represent the interests of the Proprietor in the colony.
		In seven of the crown colonies, the Council, appointed by the British Monarch on the Governor's recommendation or appointed by the Governor with the Crown's consent, was expected to coalesce with the Governor and represent the interests of the Crown in the colony.
		Colonial judges appointed by the Governor did not have the advantage of judicial independence, since they could be dismissed and certain kinds of courts could be established by the executive branch of the colonial government deciding and acting alone.
	www.proconservative.net /CUNAPolSci201PartFiveA.shtml (11872 words)

	History of Colonial America - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
		England began its colonies during the 17th century when Parliament, the nation’s primary legislative body, was increasing its powers at the expense of the crown.
		In the British colonies, representative government developed within three distinct types of colonies: royal colonies headed by a governor who was appointed by the king, proprietary colonies owned and managed by English proprietors, and corporate colonies that selected their own governors and political leaders.
		In the new colony, there was a firm union of church and state and a congregational system of church government in which each local congregation was self-governing.
	encarta.msn.com /text_1741502191___6/Colonial_America_History_of.html (1433 words)

	During the 1500s and 1600s, Europeans tried to establish colonies in North America for many different reasons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Colonies traded raw materials, such as cotton and sugar, for manufactured goods, such as iron and molasses.
		Colonies such as Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, and Virginia were established with charters.
		The king did this because the colonies had become too independent or were disobeying trade agreements and he felt he was losing control over them.
	www4.alief.isd.tenet.edu /gtafallo/Lessons/colony.htm (1157 words)

	chaptertworeview
		Each colony was established on the basis of a charter, a written grant of authority from the king.
		Colonial judges were appointed by the legislature, but appeals could be taken from the colonial courts to the king.
		Resolved, that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to be, free and independent States, that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain's, and ought to be, totally dissolved.
	www.pwcs.edu /osbournpark/govt/chaptertworeview.htm (2888 words)

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		The right of proprietary governors to incorporate was presumably similar to that of the royal governors, except as the proprietary patents from the crown may have contained limitations on the proprietary's power at this point.
		These colonies were themselves corporations existing by virtue of crown charters.(64*) Their powers of legislation were technically based, at bottom, upon their right and power as corporations to pass by-laws for their better government.
		In view of this fact, and the eagerness with which unwarranted acts by the governing bodies of these colonies were seized upon by their enemies to justify the cancellation of their charters, it is not surprising that they acted cautiously in the matter of incorporation.
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/davisjoe/corps (9713 words)

	National Park Service - Colonials and Patriots (Introduction)
		In the proprietary Colonies they were appointed by and answered to the grantees or proprietors, who were usually favorites of the Crown.
		By 1763 most of the colonial assemblies had, through this means, extended their powers to include freedom of debate, the right to judge the qualifications of their own members, regularly scheduled meetings, the right to fix their date of adjournment, and the exclusion of Crown-appointed officers from deliberations.
		Colonial political thought, strongly influenced by John Locke, had evolved two ideas foreign to the British political system—a growing belief in written constitutions and a belief in direct representation on a territorial basis.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/colonials-patriots/introg.htm (1298 words)

	COLONIAL GOVERNMENT
		The movement against the chartered and proprietary colonies that brought about this condition was begun late in the reign of Charles II, was kept up for half a century, and ended in 1729 when the Carolinas became royal provinces.
		One colony, Georgia, was founded after this time, and, after flourishing for nineteen years as a proprietary colony, was passed over to the Crown (1752) according to the terms of its charter.
		It was to this board that the colonial agents presented the interests of their respective colonies, and their efforts did much toward bringing about a closer fellowship between the mother country and the colonies.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/colonial/book/chap10_5.html (2263 words)

	Colonial Maryland
		The new colony as set forth in the charter was bounded on the north by the fortieth parallel, and on the south by the southern bank of the Potomac, while the western boundary was to be the meridian passing through the source of that river.
		Aside from the fact that Maryland was the first of the proprietary governments, the colony is especially remembered in American history as the first in which religious toleration had a place.
		During the remainder of the colonial era, frequent quarrels between the governor and the assembly resulted, as in all the royal and proprietary colonies, in a steady gain of power for the people.
	www.usahistory.info /southern/Maryland.html (2853 words)

	Colonial America - Middle Colonies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The proprietary system became a liability later in the seventeenth century, as the crown developed greater imperial ambitions.
		Divided into many distinct colonies, each jealous of the other and all internally divided by factions in their assemblies, the colonial arrangement seemed designed for many separate surrenders rather than for collective defense.
		Imperial bureaucrats believed that the proprietary colonies should first be converted into royal colonies and then consolidated into an overarching government like the Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain.
	www.jcs-group.com /oldwest/colonial/13middle1.html (1498 words)

	Greene, Provincial Governor in the English Colonies of North America. Ch. I
		The proprietary governor was, in a sense, not even a public officer at all, but the agent of a private person or group of persons, intrusted, it is true, with the powers and duties of an officer of State, but charged also with the defence and promotion of distinctly private interests.
		In the proprietary colonies, however, such conflicts were embittered by a feeling that the strife was obviously one between public and private interests.
		In this colony the authority of the proprietors almost lapsed at times; and in 1711 there was practically a state of war between conflicting claimants to the government.
	www.dinsdoc.com /greene-2-1.htm (6823 words)

	From Revolution to Reconstruction: Outlines: American History (2005): Chapter One: Second Generation of British ...
		One of the colony's least appealing aspects was the early trade in Indian slaves.
		Penn and his deputies also paid considerable attention to the colony's relations with the Delaware Indians, ensuring that they were paid for land on which the Europeans settled.
		Georgia was settled in 1732, the last of the 13 colonies to be established.
	odur.let.rug.nl /~usa/H/2005/ch1_p10.htm (707 words)

	WebRoots Library U.S. History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Colonial officials were constantly trying to find means of diverting the colonists from industrial enterprises injurious to the mother-country by encouraging others which were thought to be beneficial.
		Colonial laws sent over by the governors were examined by the Board of Trade, which frequently took the advice of the attorney and solicitor general.
		Of all the proprietary colonies, the most vulnerable were the Jerseys, in which the rights of government had never any foundation in strict law.[*] On the eve of the revolution the proprietors agreed to surrender them to the crown, and the Jerseys were included in the "greater New England" of 1688.
	www.webroots.org /library/usahist/pa000001.html (11811 words)

	Proprietary colony - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A proprietary colony is a colony which one or more private land owners retain rights that are normally – and in time always became – the privilege of the state.
		This type of indirect rule eventually fell out of favor as the English Sovereigns sought to concentrate their power and authority, and the colonies were converted to crown colonies, i.e.
		Only on 23 August 1892 they were claimed for the French "Third Republic", as part of the Indian Ocean colony of French Madagascar.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proprietary_colony (446 words)

	« In practise the American colonies were self governing in 1776 »
		Whether the colonies were independent by 1776 is a question with numerous aspects that historians have debated over the last 300 years and which comes to the inevitable conclusion that they were, to an extent, independent by 1776, but not sufficiently to remove the need of a declaration of Independence.
		Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware were proprietary colonies (the proprietor of the colony was granted a charter), the British still held a lot of rights but they were allowed an Assembly.
		All legislation from all colonies were subject to royal veto but the time during which the British had the right to veto changed from colony to colony so that it was 3 years in Massachusetts and 6 months in Pennsylvania.
	members.tripod.com /alevel_essays/awi1.htm (949 words)

	Proprietary Governor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Under the proprietary system, individuals or companies were granted commercial charters by the King of England to establish colonies.
		Proprietary Governors had legal responsibilities over the colony as well as responsibilities to shareholders to ensure the security of their investments.
		By the early 1700s, nearly all of the proprietary colonies had either surrendered their charters to the crown to become royal colonies, or else had significant limitations placed on them by the crown.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Proprietary_Governor (215 words)

	Sponsored Settlement: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage
		Though informal settlement persisted on a small scale from the early 16th century, all of the charter and proprietary colonies failed.
		The colony at Plaisance (Placentia) was not sponsored by private investors or individuals, like the English charter and proprietary colonies; it was a royal colony, founded by the French Crown to serve the interests of the state.
		Frenchmen engaged in the flourishing migratory fishery had for many years used the fine beach at Placentia to dry their fish, and proposals for a colony there were put forward as early as 1655, but it was not until 1664 that sustained funding was provided for such a venture.
	www.heritage.nf.ca /exploration/sponsored.html (1062 words)

	National Park Service - Explorers and Settlers (Historical Background)
		The restrictions on the grant were essentially the same as those imposed on the second Lord Baltimore: colonial laws had to be in harmony with those of England and had to be assented to by a representative assembly.
		James Oglethorpe, founder of the colony of Georgia, presents Tomochichi, chief of the Yamacraws, to the Lord Trustees of the colony, in England.
		Especially in the New England colonies, the local or village church was the hub of community life; the authorities strictly enforced the Sabbath and sometimes banished nonbelievers and dissenters.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/explorers/intro28.htm (1527 words)

	U.S. Technology: History - Introduction and Early Technology - free Suite101.com course
		Maryland was also a proprietary colony that was created to be a haven for English Catholics.
		It was not long until the colonies, although settled for different reasons, began to depend on each other in order for their individual economies to thrive.
		It was not long until merchants were selling tobacco, wheat and cotton from the southern colonies to the northern colonies; as well as lumber, textiles and fish to the southern colonies from the northern colonies.
	www.suite101.com /lesson.cfm/18139/1436/4 (540 words)

	Murray High School.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		England's colonies were along the eastern seaboard of the present-day U.S. France colonized primarily along the St. Lawrence River and in Louisiana.
		She did this because she had a tradition of local rule, because of great distance to the colonies, because she had a civil war of her own, and because America and England both benefited from the neglect.
		In proprietary colonies the king gave a charter to one person who then governed.
	k12.albemarle.org /MurrayHS/SSHome_Page/USnet/begfrprp.htm (958 words)

	EKR - The Colonies
		Proprietary colonies were owned by an individual proprietor or by a small group of proprietors under a charter from the Monarch
		Colonial society was divided into several social classes: the gentry, the middle class, the lower class, the indentured servants and the slaves
		In proprietary colonies, the proprietors appointed the governor
	www.jjburgard.com /EKR/preview/colonies.htm (2060 words)

	True or False Quiz on the Original 13 Colonies
		One of the effects of an improved economy in England near the end of the 17th century was an increased demand for slaves from Africa.
		During the 17th century, the English used their colonies in North America as a source of raw materials and as a market for manufactured goods.
		The colonies of Rhode Island, South Carolina and Pennsylvania were founded by people motivated to create colonies with religious freedom.
	home.att.net /~betsynewmark/13colTFc.htm (291 words)

	Common Characteristics of the Middle Colonies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Mid-Atlantic colonies were proprietary colonies established during the reign of Charles II (aka Restoration Colonies).
		Charles distributed land to his loyal followers and also used the colonies as a means to get rid of “problem” populations within
		However, this means that the middle colonies are not as cohesive as the colonies located in
	fas-history.rutgers.edu /~shelton/midnotes.htm (133 words)

	ECON 319 Key Differences Exercise
		The French, Spanish, and English colonies all had governors appointed by the king; only the English colonies had elected legislatures to deal with local taxes and local issues.
		The French and Spanish colonies were more homogeneous in terms of the European population, although there was some intermarriage with natives.
		The English colonies were the first to become independent; the rest did not until many years later.
	oregonstate.edu /~fraundom/keydiff.html (543 words)

	Peg's American History Unit
		Please note that the first portion of this outline is an outline for the WHOLE unit (it was to be 5 weeks long - of which 4 weeks are shown) and the second part of the outline is showing how it breaks down into the first 4 weeks...).
		Add the date each colony was founded and their founder.
		It is highly recommended that you make notes on what the education and government were like in these colonies.
	members.aol.com /PegFlint/unitstudy_colonies.html (1292 words)

	MARYLAND--COLONIZATION-THE SOUTHERN COLONIES
		It is interesting here to note the proprietary form of government,--its origin, the transplanting of the institution to America, and its gradual democratizing.
		But this"miniature kingdom of a semi-feudal type" was affected by the leaven of democracy from the beginning.
		He did therefore the only wise thing to be done, --he left the matter open, inviting Catholics and Protestants alike to join his colony.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/colonial/book/chap4_2.html (2850 words)

	TIME.com: INDEPENDENCE: The Birth of a New America -- Jul 4, 1976 -- Page 4
		Throughout the spring, the colonies' legislatures adapted themselves to once traitorous ideas.
		The proprietary colonies (Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland, where the heirs of William Perm and Lord Baltimore still control vast tracts of land received from the Crown) delayed.
		The proprietary governments are not only encumbered with a large body of Quakers, but are embarrassed by a proprietary interest; both together clog their operations a little."
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,712235-4,00.html (463 words)

	ORIGINS OF U.
		Crown appointed governor somewhat subservient to colonial legislatures by virtue of their control over revenue measures a.
		Britain saw that the "mother country" had lost control and were determined to do something.
		(a) Colonies were virtually sovereign by this time.
	www.panola.edu /users/jboland/ORIGINS2.HTM (141 words)

	Inventing America : Chapter 3 : Outline
		Staples Act of 1663 (exports from England to colonies)
		End of proprietary grants and colonial charters (1683)
		six royal colonies, three charter colonies, and three proprietary colonies (1730)
	www.wwnorton.com /inventing/interface/ch03/ch3_outline.htm (89 words)

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