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1To 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.