Anti-Rent Party

a party whict gained some political influence in New York, and which had its origin in the refusal of tenants, who were di at isfied with the patroon system to pay rent. The matter was settled by com promise in 1850. The patroons were early Dutch settlers who received vast tracts of land in what is now New York, on conditions which made ther virtually feudal lords of the soil. The tenants rebelled against these cond i. tions, and popular sympathy beings with them, the heirs of the patroon: were brought to terms by leg is lati or inimical to the system under which they held their lands, while at the same time the rights of property were sustained.