Proclamation of 1763 In 1763, the king of England pronounced that western North American lands would be for "Indian Reserve" only. But, by 1781, the crown no longer controlled their English colonies in North America. The United States had declared independence from Great Britain in 1776. After the U.S. Constitution was ratified, Pennsylvania was admitted as the second state to join the United States of America in the year 1787. Ohio was admitted as the seventeenth state in 1803. Follow the exciting story of the young pioneer Martha Stolzfuss, in an an interview conducted with her in her elder years, long after Ohio was admitted into the Union...