1To 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...
2To 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...
3To 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...
4To 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
5To 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,
6From 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...
7From 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.,
8From 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
9To 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,”
10To 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.