1Resolutions 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...
2From 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.
3From 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...
4From 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...
5From 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
6From 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...
7Cash 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.
8From 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...
9From 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...
10From 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,...