1From 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,...