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’...
11To George Washington from John Posey, 25 May 1771 (Washington Papers)
For Posey’s sale to GW of his rights to 3,000 acres of land under the royal Proclamation of 1763, see
12To Benjamin Franklin from William Franklin, 6 January 1772 (Franklin Papers)
was mistaken in thinking that the Proclamation of 1763 permanently prohibited settlement west of the Alleghenies: the prohibition was intended to be temporary. Robin A. Humphreys, “Lord Shelburne and the Proclamation of 1763,”
13[September 1772] (Washington Papers)
GW’s purpose in going to Fredericksburg at this time was to meet with other veteran officers of the French and Indian War “to consider of a proper method to obtain the Lands granted” by the king’s Proclamation of 1763 (resolutions of veteran officers, 15 Sept. 1772,
14Cash Accounts, September 1772 (Washington Papers)
...Fredericksburg on 14 Sept. to meet with other former military officers on the fifteenth to devise a strategy for securing for Virginia veterans of the French and Indian War the land promised to participants in the war by the royal Proclamation of 1763. See Resolutions of Officers regarding the Royal Proclamation of 1763, 15 Sept.
15[Diary entry: 14 September 1772] (Washington Papers)
GW’s purpose in going to Fredericksburg at this time was to meet with other veteran officers of the French and Indian War “to consider of a proper method to obtain the Lands granted” by the king’s Proclamation of 1763 (resolutions of veteran officers, 15 Sept. 1772,
16Resolutions of Officers regarding the Royal Proclamation of 1763, 15 September 1772 (Washington Papers)
For the allocation of acreage by rank set by the terms of the Proclamation of 1763, see ...of Governor Dinwiddie’s Proclamation of 1754. The resolutions that the officers adopted at Fredericksburg make no reference to securing land under the royal Proclamation of 1763. Not until 2 Nov. 1773, nearly a year later after all of the surveys and allotments of land under the Proclamation of 1754...
17[October 1772] (Washington Papers)
GW today paid Posey £11 11s. 3d. for his right to 3,000 acres of land under the Proclamation of 1763 (
18[Diary entry: 14 October 1772] (Washington Papers)
GW today paid Posey £11 11s. 3d. for his right to 3,000 acres of land under the Proclamation of 1763 (
19From George Washington to the Officers and Soldiers of the Virginia Regiment of 1754, 23 December 1772 (Washington Papers)
...to bring GW’s holdings along the Great Kanawha to an unbroken stretch of about forty miles. GW purchased the patent for the 2,000–acre tract from Charles Mynn Thruston who received it under the terms of the royal Proclamation of 1763 for his services in the French and Indian War. The 2,950 acres were a part of the 5,000 acres due GW himself under the Proclamation of 1763 for his services as...
20From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 14 February 1773 (Franklin Papers)
Then he show’d me the List of Grants, which he said were most of them void as being beyond the Limits prescrib’d by the Proclamation of 1763; and he had written in the Margin against almost every one of them ...him that most of them were prior to the Proclamation of 1763, and therefore it should seem could not be affected by that Proclamation. He then said, they were however contrary to prior...
21From George Washington to James Wood, 13 March 1773 (Washington Papers)
...so, I would rather advance a little money, than put up with less valuable Land; You will please to have the Grant Surveyd, and effectually Securd, with such Indulgences as those Claiming under the Proclamation of 1763 are entitled to; and do all, and every thing in my behalf which shall to you seem Right and proper, the Cost of doing which I will pay, and moreover for your faithful discharge...
22From George Washington to James Wood, 30 March 1773 (Washington Papers)
GW was contemplating claiming 5,000 acres that he was entitled to in his own right under the terms of the royal Proclamation of 1763 and an additional 5,000 under the certificates that he had purchased from John Posey and Charles Mynn Thruston. See ...Chester had informed him that “it was Lord Hilsborough’s opinion, that Provincial officers were not comprehended in that Proclamation” of 1763...
23To Benjamin Franklin from William Franklin, 30 April 1773 (Franklin Papers)
...not. Dunmore was acting counter to repeated instructions, and the government had just issued an order in council forbidding all colonial governors to make land grants until further notice, except to veterans who qualified under the provisions of the proclamation of 1763.
24To George Washington from John Connolly, 29 June 1773 (Washington Papers)
...the expectation, or hope, that Lord Dunmore would begin at last to issue patents for surveys in the West to veterans of the French and Indian War seeking land under the terms of the royal Proclamation of 1763. Connolly, who had served as a surgeon’s mate in the war, wrote GW again on 29 Aug. reporting that he had seen Dunmore during his recent visit to Pittsburgh and that Dunmore had...
25From Benjamin Franklin to William Franklin, 14 July 1773 (Franklin Papers)
, 277 n) and that the Proclamation of 1763 specifically forbade private purchase without royal licence. The assurances to Wharton, except from
26To George Washington from Lord Dunmore, 24 September 1773 (Washington Papers)
Meaume [Miami] River South side of Ohio” in Botetourt County (A List of Surveys Made by Thos Bullitt and Deputys under the Claimers of the Proclamation of 1763, May 1774,
27From George Washington to William Crawford, 25 September 1773 (Washington Papers)
...promise from our Governor, of 2,000 acres at the Falls, I have desir’d Capt: Bullet by no means to involve me in disputes with any person who has an equal claim to Land with myself under the Proclamation of 1763.). For an explanation of how GW acquired the right to 5,000 additional acres under the terms of the royal Proclamation of 1763, see
28From George Washington to William Crawford, 25 September 1773 (Washington Papers)
GW had not yet received Dunmore’s letter of 24 Sept. in which Dunmore informed GW that he did not intend to grant any patents under the royal Proclamation of 1763 and confirmed that he had written Thomas Bullitt “adviseing him to return again immediately.” Bullitt had made a visit to the Shawnee village at Old Chillicothe north of the Ohio on the Scioto River while on his surveying...
29From George Washington to John Armstrong, 10 October 1773 (Washington Papers)
...and yet, there are some words in his Letter (which I have markd) which seem to Imply an expectation at least of doing it. It remains therefore to be considered, whether the Officers claiming under his Majesty’s Proclamation of 1763 have
30From George Washington to Lord Dunmore, 2 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
GW was referring to the Order in Council of 7 April barring the colonial governors from granting further lands in the West except to officers qualifying under the royal Proclamation of 1763 (The “Ministerial Line” was the line drawn under the Proclamation of 1763.