patroon

C14968
concept

A patroon is a landholder in the Dutch colonial system who was granted large estates and manorial rights in exchange for settling and governing tenants on the land.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
patroon canonical 6
patroonship 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: patroon
Generated description
A patroon is a landholder in the Dutch colonial system who was granted large estates and manorial rights in exchange for settling and governing tenants on the land.

Instances (8)

Instance Via concept surface
Kiliaen van Rensselaer
Van Rensselaer family
surface form: Rensselaerswyck
patroonship
Rensselaerswyck patroonship
Robert Livingston the Elder
patroon Samuel Blommaert
surface form: Samuel Blommaert
patroon Samuel Godyn
surface form: Samuel Godyn
Van Rensselaer
surface form: Kiliaen van Rensselaer
Stephen Van Rensselaer