patronship

Mrs. Isabelle Field Jddson has succeeded to the patronship of the late Cyrus W. Field and Mr. Charles S. Shepard to the patronship of the late Edward M. Shepard. Dr. Walter B. James has been elected patron of the Museum in recognition of his contributions ...

The Van Pere patronship at Berbice

Another seventeenth-century Dutch colony in Guiana that had significance for the slave trade was located on the Berbice River. … the colony … was allowed to continue as a family patronship.