. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. on of the Board ofTrade. The advo-cates had carried thequestion to the king-in council, and onJuly 1,1772, Franklinread before that bodyhis masterly answerto Hillsboroughs ob-jections. Franklinsstatement was an em-phatic denial of theVirginian claim to a © western extension, forhe held that the Alle-p-hanies bounded theprovince, while therigrhts of all the colo- © nies were derived fromthe Irocpiois cession oflands, which they hadobtained
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. on of the Board ofTrade. The advo-cates had carried thequestion to the king-in council, and onJuly 1,1772, Franklinread before that bodyhis masterly answerto Hillsboroughs ob-jections. Franklinsstatement was an em-phatic denial of theVirginian claim to a © western extension, forhe held that the Alle-p-hanies bounded theprovince, while therigrhts of all the colo- © nies were derived fromthe Irocpiois cession oflands, which they hadobtained by conquestfrom the was in due time answered by George Mason, in behalf ofthe Virginians. The Iroquois argument had been often usedagainst the French, and it indicated how the policy of the min-istry had changed since the war, that it was now necessary touse this reasoning against the governments position. Treaties with the southern Indians, held at Hardlabor in1768, and again at Lochabar. in South Carolina, October 18,had acknowledged that the Cherokees right to this region to-wards the Kanawha was superior to that of the Iroquois, but. curves corresponding to those of the Delaware River. 56 THE KENTUCKY REGION. that tribe srot no recognition from Franklin, and a large eini-gration had already begun to flow west, looking to the securitywhich the treaty of Fort Stanwix gave them. Franklin saidthat he relied, to keep up this western exodus. on the voluntarysuperflux of the inhabitants of the middle provinces. The brothers Zane had built their cabin at the mouth ofWheeling Creek, the first white mans habitation, perhaps,in that section of the wilderness. Franklin reckoned that notless than five thousand families, averaging six heads each, un-able to meet the demands of the large landowners east of themountains, had before this sought lands on the Ohio. Thiscomputation did not include several thousand families whichhad passed the gaps, but had tarried within the prop
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