1From George Washington to a Participant in the Potomac River Enterprise, 1762 (Washington Papers)
...had been deferred until 26 July (ibid.). The project was probably dropped when it became clear that the transmontane west was to be closed to further settlement as was confirmed in the royal Proclamation of 1763. In 1769–70 as soon as some of the restrictions on acquiring lands in the west were lifted, men of affairs living on both sides of the Potomac in the vicinity of Alexandria again...