Examples from literature

• A careful analysis was made of lists of freeholders, and other available sources, in the various counties. 
• An assembly, composed of the governor, the council, and twelve delegates from the freeholders of the incipient settlements, these formed a government which enjoyed popular confidence. 
• As a rule the party which the Liberals call Conservative has advocated that would-be settlers should be allowed to choose their tenure for themselves, and to be leaseholders or freeholders as they please. 
• It had cleaned her streets and lightened the burdens of taxation which rested so grievously upon the freeholders. 
• That was a matter of slight importance in England, as the number of small freeholders was limited, land being usually let for a term of years.