The Mississippi Valley in British Politics a Study of the Trade Land Speculat

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The Mississippi Valley in British Politics a Study of the Trade Land Speculat
Clarence Walworth Alvord
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5, 62, in Pennsylvania Historical Society.
23 Dunmore to Dartmouth, April 2, 1774 in Dunmore Manuscripts in Li- brary of Congress.
two] IN BRITISH POLITICS 183 the extension of the Virginia boundaries. 324 Scattered notices support the belief that Virginians were not greatly pleased with the ministerial policy; for in- stance, a correspondent of George Washington wrote that he had heard that the new colony had fallen through, and he thought that in consequence the con- ditions would be better.
...32 ' On the whole, however, the references to the proposed colony in the letters of the period prove that there was a general acquiescence in the inevitable. 326 In spite of this acquiescence, there was no apathy exhibited to their self-interests by the Virginians; they intended to make what capital they could out of the situation. Their main efforts were directed to securing titles to land within the territory proposed to be erected into the colony. The first obstacle in the way of ac- complishing this was the prohibition of all land grants west of the mountains by the proclamation of 1763, a prohibition which had been repeated by Lord Hills- borough when he notified the Virginian government, on July 31, 1770, that the Lords of the Treasury had entered into agreement with the Grand Ohio Company for the sale of land.

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