USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Proprietary colonies in America were governed by a lord proprietor, who, holding authority by virtue of a royal charter, usually exercised that authority almost as an independent sovereign.

Detailed explanation-2: -pro·pri·e·tor prə-ˈprī-ə-tər. Synonyms of proprietor. : one granted ownership of a colony (such as one of the original American colonies) and full prerogatives of establishing a government and distributing land.

Detailed explanation-3: -proprietary colony, in British American colonial history, a type of settlement dominating the period 1660–90, in which favourites of the British crown were awarded huge tracts of land in the New World to supervise and develop.