What is "freeholder"

Usage examples of "freeholder".

Nothing daunted, however, Wilkes immediately offered himself for the county, and he was returned by the freeholders of Middlesex, by a very large majority.

In the official paperwork, Tallent was listed as a prominent mixed-blood freeholder, though every drop of blood in him, to my knowledge, was Scot, and he even knew what plaid his clan had worn into battle.

Around the townlet were cleared fields, each small plot owned by a freeholder.

Nay, I will make slaves where it benefits me, but let artisans and freeholders grow in such soil that will provide me with a rich crop.

Clerics took little notice of Eagles, who were recruited from the children of stewards, freeholders, artisans, or merchants.

They have gotten more land under cultivation than any of the other freeholders in our valley.

The sheriff, often holding a hereditary post and fearing therefore no check to his despotism, added to the burden of the unhappy freeholders by a custom of summoning at his own fancy special courts, and laying heavy fines on those who did not attend them.

In the remotest regions of the country barons and knights and freeholders were called to aid in carrying out the law.

Count Lavastine would sacrifice a few slaves, even if they had once been honest freeholders, for the sake of taking Gent.

Overhall the rolling countryside, checkerboarded with newly plowed fields, and square woodlots, was pleasantly studded with stone farmhouses and sturdy frame barns, all surrounded by freestone fencesthe small Achievements of freeholders whose forefathers had combined a sweet soil, careful husbandry, and hard work to build moderate wealth on grains, cattle, pigs, cheese, butter, and draft horses.

The new freeholders found that they had stopped being tenants, but were now mortgagees, paying back loans from banks instead of rent to landlords.

Zacharias might have cheered to see Wolfhere spoken to in such a way, but he had himself been born to freeholders who had risked farming in the marchlands in order to be beholden to no lord, only to the regnant.

Anwyll reported some stablelads and pigkeepers had come and gone, various of the Guard, and their stablehands, the quartermaster and his staff, a freeholder or two, and woodcutters, charcoalers, and the considerable number of chief men over orchards and outlying establishments of all sorts belonging to the ducal lands and to various of the town-dwelling lords, besides a miller with a load of flour and a tanner and various others taking out refuse and coming back.

With the provincial nobles converting the Empire's freeholders to private armies and the bureaucrats taxing them into serfdom, no wonder Videssos was short of soldiers.

Freeholders might be chocoholics, but she preferred caffeine to theobromine as a stimulant.