1From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 14 July 1773 (Franklin Papers)
, 277 n) and that the Proclamation of 1763 specifically forbade private purchase without royal licence. The assurances to Wharton, except from
2From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 14 February 1773 (Franklin Papers)
Then he show’d me the List of Grants, which he said were most of them void as being beyond the Limits prescrib’d by the Proclamation of 1763; and he had written in the Margin against almost every one of them ...him that most of them were prior to the Proclamation of 1763, and therefore it should seem could not be affected by that Proclamation. He then said, they were however contrary to prior...