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patroon|pəˈtruːn|
Also 7–8 pateroon, (8–9 -tt-, -rr-), 8 patrone.
[A variant form of patron, chiefly in some foreign applications of the word. In senses 1–3, ad. F. patron, Sp. patron, etc.; in sense 4, a. Du. patroon (paˈtroːn), as used in the former Dutch colony of New Amsterdam. In the former case, of phonetic origin, -oon being an Eng. imitation of the Fr. or Romanic sound, as in baboon, dragoon, harpoon, maroon, saloon; in the later case a retention of the Du. spelling with the Eng. pronunciation of oo.]
†1. = patron n. 3. Obs.
1662J. Wilson Cheats iv. i, And do you now forget your Patroon, sirrah? Do you forget your Patroon? 1697C'tess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 28, I could never have imagin'd that you could have been Patroon of so foul a cause.
†2. A master (esp. of a slave); = patron 7. Obs.
1677W. Hubbard Narrative (1865) II. 195 He was forced to travel with his Pateroon four or five Miles overland to Damaniscottee, where he was compelled to row, or paddle in a Canoo about fifty five Miles farther to Penobscot. 1704J. Pitts Acc. Mohammetans i. (1738) 10 In this Town I lived many Years with my second Patroon.
3. The captain, master, or officer in charge of a ship, barge, or boat; the coxswain of a longboat; = patron 6. Now rare.
1743Bulkeley & Cummins Voy. S. Seas 111 Mr. C—l the Patroon prevail'd on 'em to return to Captain C—p. Ibid. 166. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Maître de chaloupe, the coxswain, or patroon of the long-boat. 1775Romans Florida 186 The vessel draws one third, the patroon or master, two shares of the remaining two thirds. 1893Stevenson Catriona xxii. 261 Both our master and the patroon of the boat scrupled at the risk.
4. In U.S. A possessor of a landed estate and certain manorial privileges, granted under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey, to members of the (Dutch) West India Company.
The New Netherlands Co., in 1629, issued a charter providing that whoever brought 50 permanent settlers should be invested with an estate of 16 miles frontage on the Hudson, extending back indefinitely. The patroons held manorial courts. Their privileges were finally abolished about 1850.
1758L. Lyon in Mil. Jrnls. (1855) 13 Marched into the Paterroon Lands to Landlord Lovejoys. 1776C. Carroll Jrnl. (1845) 42 Vast tracts of land on each side of Hudson's river are held by the proprietaries, or, as they are here styled, the Patrones of the manors. 1790R. Tyler Contrast i. i. (1887) 5 To see the world and rub off a little of the patroon rust. 1797Jefferson Writ. (1859) IV. 186 What with the English influence..and the Patroon influence..little is to be hoped. 1826J. F. Cooper Mohicans (1829) I. xiii. 183 Tracts of country wider than that which belongs to the Albany Patteroon. 1839Marryat Diary Amer. Ser. i. I. 113 Mr. Van Ransalaer still retains the old title of Patroon. 1870Burrill Law Dict., Manor, in American Law..is a tract held of a proprietor by a fee-farm rent in money or in kind, and descending to oldest son, who in New York is called a patroon. 1883J. Fiske in Harper's Mag. 921/1 The patroons brought many colonists with them.
Hence paˈtrooness, ‘a woman with the rights or privileges of a patroon; a female patroon’ (Funk's Stand. Dict. 1895). So paˈtroonry, the system of patroons; paˈtroonship, the position, or estate, of a patroon.
1809W. Irving Knickerb. ii. ix, Magnificent dreams of foreign conquest and great patroonships in the wilderness. Ibid. iii. v, The patroon Killian Van Rensellaer, who had come out from Holland to found a colony or patroonship. 1858N. York Tribune 30 Jan. 5/3 Another Blow at Patroonry.—The land-holders of Rensselaer county..had a meeting at West Sandlake on the 27th. 1884Mag. Amer. Hist. (N.Y.) Jan. 11 His estate would be constituted a manor, or in Dutch parlance a patroonship, with privileges similar to those of a baron in England. |