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...