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.
2To 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,”
3To Benjamin Franklin from William Franklin, 30 April 1773 (Franklin Papers)
...not. Dunmore was acting counter to repeated instructions, and the government had just issued an order in council forbidding all colonial governors to make land grants until further notice, except to veterans who qualified under the provisions of the proclamation of 1763.
4To Benjamin Franklin from Franklin and Samuel Wharton: Memorial to Congress, 26 February 1780 (Franklin Papers)
...Command, forbid the Governor of Virginia to grant any Warrants for, or suffer any Surveys to be made on any Lands within the Boundaries of the Contract of your Memorialists, or beyond the Limits, prescribed by the Royal Proclamation of 1763....Land whatever Should be granted beyond the Limits of the Royal Proclamation of 1763, untill The King’s farther Pleasure was signified, And I have...
5To Benjamin Franklin from Ann Ourry, 27 January 1785 (Franklin Papers)
Under the Royal Proclamation of 1763, veterans of the Seven Years’ War were allowed to apply for land bounties. Lewis Ourry and other officers joined in requesting land grants in Albany County, N.Y., lands also claimed by John (Johannes) Van Rensselaer...