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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 27: (search)
dventurous, and the free; of those whom enterprise, or curiosity, or disgust at the forms of life in the old plantations, raised above royal edicts; Lieutenant Governor Fauquier to the Lords of Trade, 22 May, 1766: In disobedience to all proclamations, in defiance of law, and without the least shadow of right to claim or defendle are daily going out to settle beyond the Alleghany Mountains. They flock there just now more than usual, &c., &c. Same to same, 4 Sept. 1766; Proclamation by Fauquier [in the summer of 1766] against making Settlements westward of the Alleghany Mountains. of those who had nowhere else a home; or who would run all risks to take possession of the fine soil between the Alleghanies and the Ohio. Lieut. Gov. Fauquier to Shelburne, 18 Dec. 1766. The boundless West became the poor man's City of Refuge, Fauquier to Earl of Shelburne, 15 Nov. 1766. where the wilderness guarded Chap. XXVII.} 1766. Oct. his cabin as inviolably as the cliff or the cedar-top