1From George Washington to John Dickinson, 13 April 1775 (Washington Papers)
...formerly the lieutenant colonel in the 2d Battalion of the Pennsylvania Regiment during the Forbes campaign in 1757–58, or possibly his heir or representative. Lloyd would have been eligible for 5,000 acres of bounty land under the Proclamation of 1763.
2To 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,
3To 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.
4To 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,
5To 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.
6From 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under discussion in Whitehall for many months, and the second draft of the legislation was ready in early March; it repealed the Proclamation of 1763, applied French law to property-holding in the province, and extended its boundaries.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.,
7To 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...
8To 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.
9[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 (
10From 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...