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.
31From George Washington to Lord Dunmore and Council, 3 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
...council of 4 and 6 Nov. of the record of the actions that the governor and council took with regard to his letter of 2 Nov. to the governor in which he inquired about land grants under the royal Proclamation of 1763 and to this letter of c.3 Nov. to the governor and council
32To George Washington from William Crawford, 12 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
...response by GW to a suggestion from Crawford regarding the disposition of excess land in Crawford’s survey of 200,000 acres under Dinwiddie’s proclamation must have been in the letter of 27 July. Using his allotments under the Proclamation of 1763, GW did claim in 1774 land on both sides of the Great Kanawha surveyed by Crawford in 1771 (see ...the terms of the royal Proclamation of 1763...
33From George Washington to John David Wilper, 30 November 1773 (Washington Papers)
Whilst I was there, I applied generally, in behalf of all the Officers who had been in the Virginia Service (claiming under His Majesty’s Proclamation of 1763) and obtaind the Inclos’d order of Council. two days after which, & after I had left Town, it was determined in Council, that the Right, or Rights of deceased Officers or Soldiers cannot survive to their...
34To George Washington from Peter Hog, 11 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
Hog is referring to the land to which the officers serving in the French and Indian War were entitled under the terms of the Proclamation of 1763. See Resolutions of Officers regarding the Royal Proclamation of 1763, 15 Sept. 1772, and note 2
35From George Washington to Valentine Crawford, 27 December 1773 (Washington Papers)
Till I see your brother I am at a loss to locate my own lands under the proclamation of 1763, and am sensible that every day’s delay may prove hurtful, as I suppose every officer and soldier within the three provinces, either is or will be upon the move to locate their lands, by which means all...
36To George Washington from William Crawford, 10 January 1774 (Washington Papers)
For the opinion handed down by the Virginia governor and council that a claimant under the terms of the royal Proclamation of 1763 had to be himself present to claim a share of land, see
37[February 1774] (Washington Papers)
, dated 11 Feb., attesting to their satisfactory military service in the early 1760s, by which they hoped to qualify for western bounty land under the royal Proclamation of 1763 (
38To George Washington from Edward Snickers, 2 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
...sergeant in the Virginia Regiment in 1754. In 1757 on GW’s recommendation he was made regimental adjutant. Hughes was discharged as a lieutenant at the end of the war and was entitled to land allotments under the royal Proclamation of 1763. See
39[Diary entry: 12 February 1774] (Washington Papers)
, dated 11 Feb., attesting to their satisfactory military service in the early 1760s, by which they hoped to qualify for western bounty land under the royal Proclamation of 1763 (
40To George Washington from John Page, 14 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
John Rootes’ service as captain in Col. William Byrd’s 2d Virginia Regiment in 1758 entitled him under the Proclamation of 1763 to 3,000 acres of land. In the late 1780s GW used the Rootes warrant of survey to have three tracts on the Little Miami surveyed and received grants for them in 1790. See
41From George Washington to Thomas Lewis, 17 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
...surveys which Capt. Crawford has made for me in that country: these I intended, if the New Colony had taken place on the Ohio, to have patented in that Governmt, if I could not obtain them under the Proclamation of 1763; for this reason it was, I had them survey’d. If therefore Sir, you will do me the favour to Grant a Certificate (by which I can apply for & obtain a Patent for the Tract of...
42From George Washington to James Wood, 20 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
...thing but Slaves & Brutes—I am well satisfied howe⟨ver⟩ from your description of it that I have no cause to regret my disappo⟨int⟩ment. The Acct of Lord Hilsboroughs Sentiments of the Proclamation of 1763, I can view in no other light than as one, among many other proofs, of his Lordships malignant disposition towards us poor Americans; founded equally in Malice, absurdity, & error; as it...
43From George Washington to William Preston, 28 February 1774 (Washington Papers)
I took the liberty before I left Williamsburg (at least the neighbourhood of it, about the 1st of December last) to address a pretty long Letter to Colo. Andw Lewis respecting my Claims under the Proclamation of 1763...side of the Great Kanawha River. Under the terms of the Proclamation of 1763, GW as a colonel in the Virginia forces during the French and Indian War was entitled to an...
44To George Washington from William Preston, 7 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
These were the only grants that Governor Dunmore made on the land warrants secured under the terms of the royal Proclamation of 1763. James Douglas (d. 1793) led an exploring party into Kentucky in 1773 and in April 1774 he became a member of John Floyd’s surveying party, which was sent out by Preston to survey lands for the... soldiers under the Proclamation of 1763.
45From Benjamin Franklin to Jonathan Shipley, 10 March 1774 (Franklin Papers)
to Cushing below, June 1. The terms had been under discussion in Whitehall for many months, and the second draft of the legislation was ready in early March; it repealed the Proclamation of 1763, applied French law to property-holding in the province, and extended its boundaries. Adam Shortt and Arthur G. Doughty, eds.,
46To George Washington from Joseph Chew, 10 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
...[James] Maddison accompanying letters to the Governor and Colonel Washington to procure a Warrant for the lands you, as heir to your brother Colby, was intitled to under the Royal Proclamation of 1763; I backed them with my best endeavours to procure a Warrant, but to no purpose, the Governor informed me his Instructions were so positive he could not dispence with your Personal...
47To George Washington from John David Wilper, 23 March 1774 (Washington Papers)
GW did not buy the 2,000 acres that Wilper claimed under the terms of the royal Proclamation of 1763.
48To George Washington from Robert McKenzie, 13 September 1774 (Washington Papers)
...13. The land surveyed for McKenzie was 3,000 acres on the “fork of Harrods Creek 7 miles above the Falls of Ohio” (A List of Surveys made by Thos Bullitt and Deputys under the claimers of the Proclamation of 1763, May 1774,
49To George Washington from Edmund Pendleton, 10 January 1775 (Washington Papers)
...general. He was later to figure prominently in the Whiskey Rebellion. Benjamin Temple (died c.1802) had served as a subaltern in the French and Indian War, for which he was entitled to 2,000 acres under the Proclamation of 1763. It was probably either all or part of this bounty land that Crawford and Nevill purchased from him.
50To George Washington from William Preston, 9 April 1775 (Washington Papers)
Alexander Craig of Williamsburg was acting as agent for several officers claiming land under the Proclamation of 1763, including Robert McKenzie, Walter Steuart, and William Polson’s heir (A List of Surveys Made by Thos Bullitt and Deputys under the claimers of the Proclamation of 1763, May 1774,