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Here is a Mason Dixon line document we have sold in the past:
Original Surveyors Notes Mason Dixon Line
Original surveyors notes from the Mason Dixon Line. 36pp. manuscript containing the original notes made by the surveyors of the Mason Dixon line. Diary style manuscript features dates from December 1760 through June 1761. Excerpt: “Instructions for the Surveyors. / The Right Honourable the Lord Baltimore Lord Proprietary of Maryland and the Honorable the Proprietaries of Pennsylvania having entered into Articles of Agreement for setting the Limits of their respective Provinces & Territories, and having in particular agreed that a strait line shall be run from the middle of a Line which was run…from Fenwich’s Island to the Bay of Chesapeake so as that such strait line should so touch the western Part of the Periphery of a Circle at Twelve Miles Distance from the Town of New Castle as to make a tangent thereto; And it being thought expedient that in Order to discover the true course of such tangent Line and also the Point for Contact, a true North Line should be run from the middle Point aforesaid, and that the same should be continued until such North Line may be intersected by a Line run from the Center of New Castle upon such Course to the South…as will clear the River Delaware… Pages measuring 6.5″ x 8” originally bound together, now separated. Toning throughout and scattered water stains along several page edges. Overall excellent condition. Sold for $3,017.
We also sold the following newspaper mentions the surveying of the Mason-Dixon Line:
”The London Chronicle” newspaper from 4 August 1763, announcing the surveying of the Mason-Dixon Line, perhaps the first mention of the famous demarcation. For over 70 years, the boundary separating Maryland and Pennsylvania had been in dispute, which this survey was intended to rectify. On the fifth page, the newspaper reads, ”Lord Baltimore, Proprietary of Maryland, and Messrs. Penn, Proprietaries of Pennsylvania, have appointed Mr. Mason and Mr. Dickson, two eminent mathematicians, to settle the bounds of their respective settlements in those colonies, and put a final issue to a dispute which has subsisted on that head ever since 1693.” The Mason-Dixon line, of course, would take on important cultural significance as the demarcation between North and South during the Civil War, i.e., the land of Yankee or Dixie. Eight page paper measures 8.25” x 10.75”. In very good to near fine condition given age, with loose binding along left fold, a few small holes and light dampstaining. Sold for $3,125.
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