1Preliminary Articles of Peace: Second Draft Treaty, [4–7 November 1782] (Franklin Papers)
...had been apprised of. He was to press for as much land as possible, in order to bargain for compensation for the Loyalists. He was to argue for all the back lands accorded by the Proclamation of 1763, for the Canadian boundary established by the Quebec Act, and for a boundary of Nova Scotia that included, if possible, the entire province of Maine, or at the “very least” up to Penobscot...
2Comments on Petition of Kentuckians, [27 August] 1782 (Madison Papers)
...the Laws of Society,” “the great law of necessity, which was admitted as a law of nations,” and the law “of self-preservation.” They cited historical precedents, including the Royal Proclamation of 1763. They reminded the delegates from Virginia that the “united and joint efforts of the thirteen states,” and not her exertions only, had broken “the dominion of Great Britain.” McKean bluntly...
3To 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...
4From 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
5To 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...
6Report 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.
7To John Jay from the President of Congress (Samuel Huntington): Instructions to John Jay, 17 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
The 31st degree of north latitude was the boundary fixed for West Florida by the Proclamation of 1763.
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.,
9Instructions from Congress to John Jay, 4 October 1780 (Jay Papers)
The northern boundary of West Florida as set forth in the Royal Proclamation of 1763 (7 Oct.).
10To Benjamin Franklin from Franklin and Samuel Wharton: Memorial to Congress, 26 February 1780 (Franklin Papers)
...Command, forbid the Governor of Virginia to grant any Warrants for, or suffer any Surveys to be made on any Lands within the Boundaries of the Contract of your Memorialists, or beyond the Limits, prescribed by the Royal Proclamation of 1763....Land whatever Should be granted beyond the Limits of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, untill The King’s farther Pleasure was signified, And I have...