1From George Washington to a Participant in the Potomac River Enterprise, 1762 (Washington Papers)
...had been deferred until 26 July (ibid.). The project was probably dropped when it became clear that the transmontane west was to be closed to further settlement as was confirmed in the royal Proclamation of 1763. In 1769–70 as soon as some of the restrictions on acquiring lands in the west were lifted, men of affairs living on both sides of the Potomac in the vicinity of Alexandria again...
2To Benjamin Franklin from James Lyon, April 1763 (Franklin Papers)
The fact that Lyon went to Nova Scotia in 1765 suggests that he did not pursue for long his scheme for western settlement. Pontiac’s Uprising and the Proclamation of 1763 checked plans for the west.
3Memorandum Books, 1768 (Jefferson Papers)
The Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited settlement west of the
4From George Washington to Botetourt, 8 December 1769 (Washington Papers)
...The campaign ended the following July when GW surrendered his forces at Fort Necessity to the French. Any action regarding Dinwiddie’s proclamation was delayed after the war by the royal Proclamation of 1763 closing the transallegheny west to further settlement. With the negotiation of treaties in the fall of 1768 for the cession of land in the transmontane west by the Iroquois and Cherokee...
5[January 1770] (Washington Papers)
GW today paid the Rev. Mr. Thruston £10 for his share of lands on the Ohio to be granted under the Proclamation of 1763 (
6[Diary entry: 7 January 1770] (Washington Papers)
GW today paid the Rev. Mr. Thruston £10 for his share of lands on the Ohio to be granted under the Proclamation of 1763 (
7From George Washington to Charles Washington, 31 January 1770 (Washington Papers)
) inspired the general expectation that restrictions on the granting of western lands imposed by the Proclamation of 1763 were at the point of being lifted. Under the terms of the proclamation, GW was entitled to 5,000 acres....Accounts for January 1770 paying Lund Washington £10 for the claim to bounty lands that Rev. Charles Mynn Thruston had under the terms of the royal proclamation of 1763,...
8To George Washington from Andrew Lewis, 1 March 1770 (Washington Papers)
, 6:313, 327). On 31 July 1770 Hillsborough, secretary of state for the colonies, instructed Governor Botetourt to make no grants in the transmontane west that was closed to settlement by the Proclamation of 1763.
9[July 1770] (Washington Papers)
, C.O.5/1348, 334–36). Surveying and distribution of the lands had been delayed first by war and then by the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. However, much of the territory was opened by treaties signed with the Indians at Hard Labour and Fort Stanwix in 1768. In Dec. 1769 GW brought the Virginia soldiers’...
10[Diary entry: 30 July 1770] (Washington Papers)
, C.O.5/1348, 334–36). Surveying and distribution of the lands had been delayed first by war and then by the Royal Proclamation of 1763, which prohibited settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains. However, much of the territory was opened by treaties signed with the Indians at Hard Labour and Fort Stanwix in 1768. In Dec. 1769 GW brought the Virginia soldiers’...