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ts, or by a stamp-duty, which last method he at that time favored. Lieut. Gov. H. Sharpe to the Secretary, C. Calvert, 15 September, 1754. These measures were under consideration while the news was fresh of Washington's expulsion from the Ohio valley. Listening to the instance of the House of Burgesses of Virginia, the king instructed the Earl of Albemarle, then governor-in-chief of that Dominion, to grant lands west of the great ridge of mountains which separates the rivers Roanoke, James, and Potomac from the Mississippi, to such persons as should be desirous of settling them, in small quantities of not more than a thousand acres for any one person. chap. VII.} 1754 From the settlement of this tract it was represented that great additional security would be derived against the encroachments of the French. Representation of the Board of Trade to the king, 10 June, 1768. Thus Virginia seemed to have in charge the colonization of the west; and became the mother of states o