1To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 10 May 1782 (Madison Papers)
...almost exclusively upon her expenditure of “blood and treasure” to defend the area during the French and Indian War and Lord Dunmore’s War, upon a refutation of the charge that the Proclamation of 1763 had hedged, or was premised upon a much earlier restriction of, Virginia to the territory east of the Appalachian watershed, and upon numerous cessions of land in the West by Indians...