This chapter was part of a commissioned collection from scholars who readdressed the role and importance of proprietorship in the early 'European' development of the Americas (French, English, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese). It forms part of the author's work on the English in Surinam (the only person working on the region in this period) and marks a series of collaborations with Roper (ed.) in developing a new 'integrationist' and comparative approach to the socio-political history of the 17th-century Americas. RAE_import_type : Chapter in book RAE_uoa_type : History