Sentence:  He held the office as resident <WSD>land agent</WSD> of the Holland Land Company for twenty-one years. In this capacity he laid out the city of New Amsterdam, now Buffalo, gave its streets the jaw-breaking names of the Dutch proprietors and made it a flourishing town. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (historic) A person employed to manage the legal and practical aspects of developing a land grant.