USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A proprietary colony was a type of English colony mostly in North America and in the Caribbean in the 17th century. In the British Empire, all land belonged to the monarch, and it was his/her prerogative to divide.

Detailed explanation-2: -: a colony granted to some individual or individuals with the fullest prerogatives of government compare charter colony, royal colony.

Detailed explanation-3: -A proprietary charter was granted to an individual as a direct result of their relationship with the king. This would result in the individual, or Lord Proprietor, governing the colony in their own way but still under the flag of the mother country.

Detailed explanation-4: -PROPRIETARY COLONIES were grants of land in the form of a charter, or a license to rule, for individuals or groups. They were used to settle areas rapidly with British subjects at the proprietors’ expense during the costly settlement years.

Detailed explanation-5: -France needed to find a new way to fund the colony. King Louis XIV decided to allow a businessman to run the colony. He established a proprietorship and gave an individual a charter (contract) to operate the colony as a business.