Mason Adn Dixon's Line: a History: Including an Outline of the Boundary Controversy Between Pennsylvania and Virgina

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W.S. Haven, 1857 - Mason-Dixon Line - 58 pages
 

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Page 11 - Name of the Council Established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, Ruling, Ordering and Governing of New England in America...
Page 10 - Comfort, all along the sea coast to the southward two hundred miles, and all that space and circuit of land, lying from the sea coast of the precinct aforesaid, up into the land, throughout from sea to sea, west and northwest...
Page 18 - Penn, his heirs and assigns, all that tract or part of land in America, with all the islands therein contained, as the same is bounded on the east by Delaware River, from twelve miles...
Page 18 - The said land to extend westwards five degrees in longitude to be computed from the said eastern bounds ; and the said lands to be bounded on the north by the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles...
Page 47 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Page 14 - Watkins •Point, situate upon the bay aforesaid, near the River Wighco on the west unto the main ocean on the east, and between that boundary on the south unto that part of the Bay of Delaware on the north, which lieth under the fortieth degree of north latitude...
Page 18 - ... distance from New Castle, northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned.
Page 26 - Quarter of a mile South of the Latitude of the most Southern Part of the City of Philadelphia...
Page 35 - ... degree of north latitude, one hundred and twenty miles west of the western boundary of Pennsylvania ; and...
Page 23 - Delaware; which was at, and before, the passing of that patent, bought and planted by the Dutch; and so could not be given. But, if it were, it was forfeited, for not reducing it, during twenty years, under the English sovereignty, of which he held it; but was at last reduced by the King, and therefore his, to give as he pleaseth.

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