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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 presnd 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 Ci
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Mason and Slidell affair. (search)
Mason and Slidell affair. See Trent, the; Mason, James Murray. Massachusetts, State of
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
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′ 2While 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 be 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, 176s, issued......July 29, 1786 Boundary-line between Pennsylvania and Virginia, continuation of Mason and Dixon's line, extended to a point five degrees west from the Delaware......1786 Conventio, 1846 State forbids the use of jails to hold fugitive slaves......May 3, 1848 Resurvey of Mason and Dixon's line completed......Nov. 19, 1849 Judiciary made elective......1850 Manufactur