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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
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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)
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 holds the eagle's eyrie. The few who occupied lands under grants from the Crown, could rely only on themselves for the protection of their property, and refused to pay quit-rents till their legal right should be acknowledged. The line of straggling settlements beyond the mountains, extended from Pittsburg up the Monongahela For the