1From 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
2From 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...
3From 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
4From 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...
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 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...
7From 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.
8From 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.
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 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.