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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
d with Pennsylvania on the basis of equal rights, and a code called the great law was enacted.] Counties of Bucks, Chester, and Philadelphia organized......December, 1682 Penn attends to laying out Philadelphia......December, 1682 Penn meets Lord Baltimore at New Castle to adjust boundary claims between Pennsylvania and MDecember, 1682 Penn meets Lord Baltimore at New Castle to adjust boundary claims between Pennsylvania and Maryland......December, 1682 [Dispute not settled until 1760, when it was referred to two English mathematicians, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who ran the boundary-line due west 244 miles (1763-67) in lat. 39° 43′ 26″; stones erected every mile up to 132, every fifth stone bearing the arms of the Baltimore and Penn familiesDecember, 1682 [Dispute not settled until 1760, when it was referred to two English mathematicians, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, who ran the boundary-line due west 244 miles (1763-67) in lat. 39° 43′ 26″; stones erected every mile up to 132, every fifth stone bearing the arms of the Baltimore and Penn families. Resurveyed, 1849. While debating in Congress the Missouri Compromise, in 1820, John Randolph introduced the phrase Mason and Dixon's line, as separating freedom from slavery, or the North from the South; the phrase became at once exceedingly popular.] Penn summons the Assembly to Philadelphia, where changes are made in t
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 8, Chapter 68: (search)
eat Britain; but here, a petition was read from Germans, praying that all associators who were taxable might vote. In the old election to the assembly the possession of fifty pounds proclamation money was required as the qualification of a voter, both in the city under its charter and in the counties; and the foreign born must further have been naturalized under alaw which required an oath of allegiance to the British king: the conference revived the simple provision of the Great Law of December 1682, and endowed every taxpayer with the right to vote for members of the constituent convention. So neither poverty nor place of birth any more disabled freemen; in Pennsylvania liberty claimed for the builders of her house the rich and the poor, the German, the Scot, the Englishman, the Irishman, as well as the native. Thus the Germans were incorporated into the people, and made one with them; the emigrants who spoke the language of Lessing and Kant, became equal members of the new city