In the United States, a patroon (English: /pəˈtruːn/; from Dutch patroon) was a landholder with manorial rights to large tracts of land in the 17th century Dutch colony of New Netherland on the east coast of North America. (i found this from the web)
These were established in the 17th century by those New England Puritans who preferred the presbyterian system of church polity (government) to that of New England Congregationalism. Also in the 17th century, Scotch-Irish, English, and other settlers formed Presbyterian churches in Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania.
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Deity) a god or goddess (in a polytheistic religion)., Polytheistic) relating to or characterized by belief in or worship of more than one god. Ziggurat) (in ancient Mesopotamia) a rectangular stepped tower, sometimes surmounted by a temple. Ziggurats are first attested in the late 3rd millennium BC and probably inspired the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Gen. 11:1–9)., Secular) denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis. or (of clergy) not subject to or bound by religious rule; not belonging to or living in a monastic or other order.
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