In the northern colonies the township, in the southern the county, the more active
local agent
Functions of both more evenly balanced in the middle colonies; the township in
New England; township as the manor; as the parish
The New England town meeting
Manors in Maryland; proprietor founds the system
A court baron at St. Gabriel's manor; a court leet at St. Clement's. Dutch manors
in New York
The patroon as lord of the manor; manorial courts in New York
The manor a self-governing community. The parish in Virginia
Virginia towns grow into counties which are divided into parishes
Resemblance between the English and Virginia parish; both hardened into close
corporations