. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. ant, all of which might affect Croghans title as derived fromthe Indians. Still Washington did not hesitate to add to hisown rights under the Dinwiddie proclamation by buying simi-lar claims of others, and when he died, nearly thirty yearslater, his will shows that he still owned various lots on theKanawha, aggregating nearly fourteen thousand acres in fourparcels, beside a fine area above the modern Charleston, whichhe and Andrew Lewis ha
. The Westward Movement; the colonies and the Republic west of the Alleghanies, 1763-1798; with full cartographical illustrations from contemporary sources. ant, all of which might affect Croghans title as derived fromthe Indians. Still Washington did not hesitate to add to hisown rights under the Dinwiddie proclamation by buying simi-lar claims of others, and when he died, nearly thirty yearslater, his will shows that he still owned various lots on theKanawha, aggregating nearly fourteen thousand acres in fourparcels, beside a fine area above the modern Charleston, whichhe and Andrew Lewis had secured after being attracted by abituminous spring upon it. When it was known that the Dinwiddie grant was preserved,Washington, who had returned to Mount Vernon by the firstof December, 1770, sent Ca])tain William Crawford in thefollowing May to mark out its bounds. Washingtons journeyhad convinced him that the wagon road then in use, extendingabout two hundred miles from where it left the Monongahela toAlexandria, could be shortened to sixty and perhaps to twentymiles, if the Potomac could be made navigable by some system 54 THE KENTUCKY Note. — This map shows an attempt to define the western bounds of Pennsylvania by of canalization, such as Franklin was contemplating for theSusquehanna and its branches. Some such enterprise wasnecessaiy if Virginia was going to hold a successful rivalrywith Pennsylvania. Xo other Virginian added so much per-sonal interest to his urgency for the provinces behoof, inas-much as he eventually held over thirty thousand acres through-out the Ohio valley. Washingtons interest in the soldiersclaims was superadded to his own, and he wrote to Dunmore inJune, 1771, that the officers and soldiers confide in me totransact this business for them. FRANKLIN AND HILLSBOROUGH. 55 At the same timeWashington repre-sented that a reportof the ultimate suc-cess of the Walpolepetitioners was gain-ing ground notwith-standing the opposi-tion of the Boa
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