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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mason and Dixon's line, (search)
Mason and Dixon's line, The disputed boundary-line between the State of Pennsylvania and the States of Maryland and Virginia—the border-line between the free and the slave States—fixed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, English mathematicians and surveyors employed for the purpose, between 1763 and 1767. In the debates on slavery before the admission of Missouri, John Randolph used the words Mason and Dixon's line as figurative of the division between the two systems of labor. The press and the politicians echoed it; and in that connection it was used until the destruction of slavery by the Civil
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Meigs, Fort (search)
ration that, at the beginning of April, the great Shawnee warrior was at Fort Malden with 1,500 Indians. Full 600 of them were drawn from the country between Lake Michigan and the Wabash. On April 23 Proctor, with white and dusky soldiers, more than 2,000 in number, left Amherstburg on a brig and smaller vessels, and, accompanied by two gunboats and some artillery, arrived at the mouth of the Maumee, 12 miles from Fort Meigs, on the 26th, where they landed. One of the royal engineers (Captain Dixon) was sent up with a party to construct works on the left bank of the Maumee, opposite Fort Meigs. On April 28 Harrison was informed of the movement of Proctor and his forces. He knew that Gen. Green Clay was on the march with Kentuckians, and he despatched Capt. William Oliver with an oral message urging him to press forward by forced marches. Meanwhile Proctor and his forces had arrived, and on the morning of May l, 1813, he opened a cannonade and bombardment from the site of Maume
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
ecember, 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 families. Resurveyed, 1849. While debating in Congress the Missouof his troops and defeating them. His loss was eight officers and 115 privates. He reaches and relieves Fort Pitt......Aug. 10, 1763 Connecticut colony in the Wyoming Valley driven out by the Indians......Oct. 15, 1763 Surveyors Mason and Dixon begin running the southern boundary-line (see this record, 1682)......Dec. 9, 1763 Barbarities of Indians at this time disposed the frontiersmen to destroy every Indian—enemy or not. A remnant of a friendly tribe at Conestoga is massacred by f
George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 2, 17th edition., Chapter 16: (search)
ave been reversed at the revolution of 1688. This decision formed the basis of an agreement between the respective heirs of the two proprietaries in 1732. Three years afterwards the subject became a question in chancery; in 1750, the present boundaries were decreed by Lord Hardwicke; ten years later, they were, by agreement, more accurately defined; and in 1761, commissioners began to designate the limit of Maryland on the side of Pennsylvania and Delaware. In 1763, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, two mathematicians or surveyors, were engaged to mark the lines. In 1764 they 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