By the Royal Proclamation of 1763, the northern boundary of the newly created province of West Florida was fixed at 31° north latitude, from the Mississippi River eastward to the Apalachicola River (William Macdonald, ed.,
2Report on Instructions on Peace Negotiations, [7 January 1782] (Madison Papers)
The Royal Proclamation of 1763 created the British provinces of Quebec, East Florida, West Florida, and Grenada and defined the boundary of each. The proclamation also forbade, “for the present,” outside Quebec and the two Floridas, any further survey or...See n. 9, above. The approximately accurate quotation is taken from the tenth paragraph of the Proclamation of 1763.
3From James Madison to Thomas Jefferson, 16 April 1782 (Madison Papers)
that the Proclamation of 1763 has constituted the Alleghany Ridge the Western limit of Virga. & that the letter of Presidt. Nelson on the subject of a New Colony on the Ohio, relinquishes
4To Thomas Jefferson from James Madison, 16 April 1782 (Jefferson Papers)
...of 1609 was annulled by the resumption of it into the hands of the Crown, and that the subsequent grants to Maryland &c. denote this to have been the construction of it; that the Proclamation of 1763 has constituted the Allegheny Ridge the Western limit of Virga. and that the letter of Presidt. Nelson on the subject of a New Colony on the Ohio relinquishes on the part of Virga. all...