On this day 250 years ago in London, Lord Dartmouth, the British Colonial Secretary, wrote a letter to Governor Dunmore ruling that Virginia veterans of the French and Indian War were not entitled to claim bounty land. The British Government’s denial of colonial claims for western lands infuriated Patriot leaders such as George Washington, George Mason and Thomas Jefferson and helped precipitate the Revolutionary War.

Source: Woody Holton, “The Ohio Indians and the Coming of the American Revolution”, The Journal of Southern History 453 at 472 found at https://www.jstor.org/stable/2210989?read-now=1&seq=20