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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
hey entered upon their task, with good instruments and a corps of axemen; by the middle of June, 1765, they had traced the parallel of latitude to the Susquehannah; a year later they climbed the little Alleghany; in 1767 they carried forward their work under an escort from the Six Nations, to an Indian war-path, two hundred and fortyfour miles from the Delaware river. Other hands, at a later day, continued Mason and Dixon's line to the West, as the Southern boundary of Pennsylvania. John H. Latrobe's History of Mason and Dixon's Line. But the care of colonial property did not absorb the enthusiasm of Penn; and, now that his father's friend had succeeded to the throne, he employed his fortune, Chap XVI.} his influence, and his fame, to secure that impartial liberty of conscience, which, for nearly twenty years, Penn, in Proud, i. 325. So Penn, in his autograph Apology. This was communicated to me in Ms. by J. F. Fisher, who has since caused it to be printed. It is a mos