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Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most ...
Weaving revelations about surveying into an engrossing historical narrative that captures the spirit of pre-Revolutionary America, this book accomplishes for the making of the Mason-Dixon line what Dava Sobel’s Longitude did for John ...
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The history of
Mason and Dixon's
line
manity common to all ages; and, depend upon it, whatever the few may wish, the
many will be true ; and this, our line of survey, will, after all, owe its notoriety to
ephemeral oratory, in which it figures as a mere phrase of cant, or to addresses, ...
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The Historical Encyclopedia of World Slavery
... boundary of Pennsylvania marked the southern limit of the free Northern states.
Fugitive slaves had a better chance of obtaining their freedom if they could get
from Maryland to Pennsylvania across Mason and Dixon's line. After passage of ...
Junius P. Rodriguez, 1997
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State gazette appendix: containing official reports of the ...
whole-souled Tom HcKinney, who poured out money like water, and was a
native of the country north of Mason and Dixon's line. Then, sir, it was that Sam
Swartwcut, of New York, opened his purse strings and gave six thousand dollars,
and ...
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The Companion to Southern Literature: Themes, Genres, ...
Coined during congressional debates that led to the Missouri Compromise (1820
-1821), the term "Mason and Dixon Line" soon became symbolic of national
divisions over slavery, and in the twentieth century it continued to symbolize ...
Joseph M. Flora, Lucinda Hardwick MacKethan, Todd W. Taylor, 2002
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From the Civil War to the Apocalypse: Postmodern History
and ...
Besides, they might be killed for trespassing. By implication, though, Mason and
Dixon's line will obliterate the line of the Indians' Warrior Path. Although Mason
and Dixon may chart their line for the Drawing a Line in the Sands of History 159.
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Walkin' the
Line: A Journey from Past to Present Along the ...
George Washington used the term “Mason and Dixon Line” in a letter written in
1774. Thomas Jefferson used “Mason's & Dixon's Line” in a 1776 letter. The
phrase “Mason and Dixon's Line” was used several times in 1782 in a
Continental ...
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Lecture Upon the Controversy Between Pennsylvania
and ...
The true terms and spirit of the compromise of 1779 were as follow: —
Pennsylvania relinquished her claim to the territory South of Mason and Dixon's
line, and Virginia agreed that the five degrees of longitude should be measured
from the ...
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Boundaries of the United States
and the several States: with ...
He changed the position of the arc boundary as marked in 1701 and assigned to
Pennsylvania the triangular strip 3V2 miles in length (about 840 acres in area)
west of the arc boundary, east of Maryland and south of the Mason and Dixon
line, ...
Franklin K. Van Zandt, 1976
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Our Rulers
and Our Rights: Or, Outlines of the United States ...
Mason and Dixon's line, without any intention of making it such, became the
boundary between the free and slave States. The line run by these men went no
further west than those States extended, and was a straight line running east and
...
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Erfahre, worüber man in den einheimischen und internationalen Medien spricht und wie der Begriff
Mason and Dixon Line im Kontext der folgenden Nachrichten gebraucht wird.
A 'complicated' journey: The story of Logan and Memorial Day
... a distant relative of the famous Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic reveals the fist memorial services north of the Mason and Dixon line ... «The Southern, Mai 15»
The untold story of Col. Edwin Wilmer
PORT DEPOSIT — Any student of genealogy, especially those with roots south of the Mason and Dixon line, has come across an ancestor or ... «Cecil Whig, Okt 14»
St. Stephen's: An impressive history nearly hidden by pastoral setting
William Douglas the fifth black person to receive Anglican Orders in America and the first to receive them south of the Mason and Dixon line. «Cecil Whig, Jan 14»
Solving the Mysteries of Mason and Dixon
“To understand what they did, you have to understand how they did it,” says Todd Babcock, the chairman of the Mason and Dixon Line ... «POB, Okt 13»
Fellsmere, Old Florida Town, Is Home To Frog Legs Record …
... the Mason and Dixon line." A local chapter of the National Organization for Women still meets at the restaurant every August to commemorate ... «Huffington Post, Sep 13»
Mason and Dixon get overdue local recognition
Todd Babcock, the chairman of the Mason and Dixon Line Preservation Partnership, drives the commemorative iron spike into Stargazer Road. «The Unionville Times, Aug 13»
Celebrating local legacy of Mason and Dixon
But Todd Babcock, the chairman of the Mason and Dixon Line Preservation Partnership who will emcee Thursday's program, set up modern ... «The Unionville Times, Aug 13»
Dallas' Stoneleigh hotel keeps historic feel, adds new brand name
... Arts building was hailed as “the most modernly operated, most beautifully and completely appointed hotel south of the Mason and Dixon line. «Dallas Morning News, Jul 12»
United Way Honors Manchester Couple's Decades Of Volunteering …
"I thought when you got above the Mason and Dixon line, that things were different," said Rawlins, 82, who grew up in Fredericksburg, Va., and ... «Hartford Courant, Mär 12»
“How the States Got Their Shapes Too,” by Mark Stein, is about …
Jeremiah Dixon, of Mason and Dixon Line fame, was “disowned [by his parents] for drinking to excess.” And John Sutter, whose discovery of ... «Washington Post, Jul 11»
