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In my researches after papers, I find Memorandums of warrants, which had been put into the hands of the Surveyor of Bottetourt to execute; particularly one in my own right, under the Royal Proclamation of 1763 for 5000 acres, which appears ...persuaded the governor and council to authorize warrants of survey on the “western waters” for those entitled to land under the Royal Proclamation of 1763...
that I ought (if I have not been neglectful in taking them out) to have warrts somewhere for 5000 acres under the proclamation of 1763—of which no locations, that have come to my knowledge, have yet been made....claims to the amount of the Tract, & locating of them upon that spot.” The Virginia council had decided on 16 Dec. 1773 that an officer claiming land under the Proclamation of 1763...
..., it would seem that several Land Warrants which I had obtained from Lord Dunmore in my own right, & by purchase from Capt. John Roots & Lieut:(now, or lately the Revd Mr) Thruston under the Royal Proclamation of 1763, amounting in the whole to 10,000 acres, have, or ought to have been placed in the hands of the Surveyor of Augusta, Bottetourt or Fincastle, or partly in all, for execution;
...by those who incline to become adventurers in the settlement of them; but it may not be improper to observe further, that they were surveyed under the royal Proclamation of 1763 (granting to each commisioned & non-commissioned officer, according to his rank, & to the private Soldier, certain quantities)—and under a yet older proclamation from Mr Dinwiddie, then Lieutt Governor of...
Of the 5,050 acres unaccounted for in the total of 13,000 acres for which GW secured warrants under the Royal Proclamation of 1763, 2,050 acres were in the warrant of 5,000 acres given GW for his own services in the war. A survey and grant of 250 acres at the Burning Springs had in fact already been made, leaving...
6September 1784 (Washington Papers)
GW’s patent for his Millers Run land was based on a military warrant for 3,000 acres which John Posey had obtained under the Proclamation of 1763 for service in the French and Indian War and had sold to GW in 1770 (
GW’s patent for his Millers Run land was based on a military warrant for 3,000 acres which John Posey had obtained under the Proclamation of 1763 for service in the French and Indian War and had sold to GW in 1770 (
...soon as circumstances would permit, these steps were preliminary to obtain the Land. Accordingly, a Warrant which I obtained in consequence of a purchase from one Captain Posey (who under the British Kings proclamation of 1763 was entitled to 3000 acres) whose Bond I now have bearing date the 14th of Octr 1770, assigning to me all his right to land under it, was located there on; and Colo....
John Posey transferred to GW his right to claim 2,000 acres under the royal Proclamation of 1763, and it was under Posey’s right that GW secured a
5:499–500). During the French and Indian War the implementation of the proclamation remained in abeyance, and after its close the Proclamation of 1763 delayed it further. GW and many others privately considered the 1763 proclamation “a temporary expedient to quiet the Minds of the Indians & must fall of course in a few years. . . . any Person therefore who...