Answer:
Pieces of land with licenses for individuals or groups of people.
Important Information:
➜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. ➜Before that time, most of the colonies had been financed and settled under the jurisdiction of joint-stock companies operating under charters granted by the crown.
