(US, historical) The position or office of a patroon; landownership (originally of a Dutch colony).
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(US, historical) An estate run by a patroon, or under a similar system.
2003 (revised), Howard Zinn, ''A People's History of the United States'', HarperCollins 2005, p. 211:
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