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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