Exploring the Mason Dixon Line: Walking in the Footsteps of History Layton John
Exploring the Mason Dixon Line: Walking in the Footsteps of History Layton John King Charles I of England granted the Calvert Family a charter for the Colony of Maryland in 1632. However, the…
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Exploring the Mason Dixon Line: Walking in the Footsteps of History Layton John
King Charles I of England granted the Calvert Family a charter for the Colony of Maryland in 1632. However, the ambiguity of the language and lack of precision in both grants sowed the seeds of dispute over a sixty-nine mile parcel of land between the 39th and 40th degrees of North Latitude. Forty-nine years later, in 1681, Charles II awarded the Penn Family a similar charter for Pennsylvania.
Had the Calverts prevailed, part of the City of Philadelphia would now be in Maryland, and had the Penns succeeded Baltimore would today be in the state of Pennsylvania Arguments between the opposing parties dragged on for more than half a century before the English Courts finally issued a decree: Neither the Calverts nor the Penns would prevail; the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania would be a line of latitude located fifteen miles due south of the most southern point in the city of
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