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See also:- MASON, FRANCIS (1799—1874)
- MASON, GEORGE (1725—1792)
- MASON, GEORGE HEMMING (1818–1872)
- MASON, JAMES MURRAY (1798-1871)
- MASON, JOHN (1586-1635)
- MASON, JOHN YOUNG (1799-1859)
- MASON, LOWELL (1792—1872)
- MASON, SIR JOHN (1503–1566)
- MASON, SIR JOSIAH (1795-1881)
- MASON, WILLIAM (1725—1797)
MASON AND See also:DIXON See also:LINE , in See also:America, the boundary line (See also:lat. 39° 43' 26.3" N.) between See also:Maryland and See also:Pennsylvania, U.S.A.; popularly the line separating " See also:free " states and " slave " states before the See also:Civil See also:War. The line derives its name from See also:Charles Mason (1730-1787) and See also:Jeremiah Dixon, two See also:English astronomers, whose survey of it to a point about 244 M. See also:west of the See also:Delaware between 1763 and 17671 marked the See also:close of the protracted boundary dispute (arising upon the See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
grant of Pennsylvania to See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Penn in 1681) between the Baltimores and Penns, proprietors respectively of Maryland and Pennsylvania. The dispute arose from the designation, in the grant to Penn, of the See also:southern boundary of Pennsylvania mainly as the parallel marking the " beginning of the fortieth degree of Northerne See also:Latitude," after the See also:northern boundary of See also:Mary-See also:land had been defined as a line " which lieth under the fortieth degree of See also:north latitude from the equinoctial." The eastern See also:part of the line as far as Sideling See also:- HILL
- HILL (0. Eng. hyll; cf. Low Ger. hull, Mid. Dutch hul, allied to Lat. celsus, high, collis, hill, &c.)
- HILL, A
- HILL, AARON (1685-175o)
- HILL, AMBROSE POWELL
- HILL, DANIEL HARVEY (1821-1889)
- HILL, DAVID BENNETT (1843–1910)
- HILL, GEORGE BIRKBECK NORMAN (1835-1903)
- HILL, JAMES J
- HILL, JOHN (c. 1716-1775)
- HILL, MATTHEW DAVENPORT (1792-1872)
- HILL, OCTAVIA (1838– )
- HILL, ROWLAND (1744–1833)
- HILL, SIR ROWLAND (1795-1879)
Hill in the western part of the
i These surveyors also surveyed and marked the boundary between Maryland and Delaware.See also:present See also:Washington See also:county, was originally marked with mile-stones brought from See also:England, every fifth of which See also:bore on one See also:side the arms of See also:Baltimore and on the opposite side those of Penn; but the difficulties in transporting them to the westward were so See also:great that many of them were not set up. Owing to the removal of the See also:- STONE
- STONE (0. Eng. shin; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Stein, Du. steen, Dan. and Swed. sten; the root is also seen in Gr. aria, pebble)
- STONE, CHARLES POMEROY (1824-1887)
- STONE, EDWARD JAMES (1831-1897)
- STONE, FRANK (1800-1859)
- STONE, GEORGE (1708—1764)
- STONE, LUCY [BLACKWELL] (1818-1893)
- STONE, MARCUS (184o— )
- STONE, NICHOLAS (1586-1647)
stone marking the north-See also:east corner of Maryland, this point was again determined and marked in 1849-185o by Lieut.-See also:Colonel J. D. See also:Graham of the U.S. topographical See also:engineers; and as the western part of the boundary was not marked by stones, and See also:local disputes arose, the line was again surveyed between 1901 and 1903 under the direction of a See also:commission appointed by Pennsylvania and Maryland.
The use of the See also:term " Mason and Dixon Line " to designate the boundary between the free and the slave states (and in See also:general between the North and the See also:South) See also:dates from the debates in See also:Congress over the See also:Missouri See also:Compromise in 1819–182o. As so used it may be defined as not only the Mason and Dixon Line proper, but also the line formed by the See also:Ohio See also:River from its intersection with the Pennsylvania boundary to its mouth, thence the eastern, northern and western boundaries of Missouri, and thence westward the parallel 36° 3o'—the line established by the Missouri Compromise to See also:separate free and slave territory in the " See also:Louisiana See also:Purchase," except as regards Missouri. It is to be noted, however, that the Missouri Compromise did not affect the territory later acquired from See also:Mexico.
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