. History and government of Pennsylvania. A supplement to Elementary American history and government by James Albert Woodburn and Thomas Francis Moran . oganlearned to speak manyof the Indian dialects andthe Indians consideredhim their good great house at Sten-ton is still standing, notfar from Wayne Junctionon the Reading there was to be agreat conference betweenthe Governors counciland the Indians, thefloors and even the stair-ways of Stenton wouldbe occupied at night byLogans Indian guests, sleeping in their robes and blankets. Boundary Disputes; Troubles with Lord
. History and government of Pennsylvania. A supplement to Elementary American history and government by James Albert Woodburn and Thomas Francis Moran . oganlearned to speak manyof the Indian dialects andthe Indians consideredhim their good great house at Sten-ton is still standing, notfar from Wayne Junctionon the Reading there was to be agreat conference betweenthe Governors counciland the Indians, thefloors and even the stair-ways of Stenton wouldbe occupied at night byLogans Indian guests, sleeping in their robes and blankets. Boundary Disputes; Troubles with Lord Baltimore. Thegrant by Charles II to Penn included the land west of the Dela-ware River, bounded by a circle drawn twelve miles distantfrom Newcastle northward and westward unto the beginningof the fortieth degree of northern latitude, thence by a straightline westward through five degrees of longitude. The northernboundary was to be the forty-second parallel. Lord Baltimorehad, however, been granted the land west of Delaware Baywhich lay under the fortieth degree of latitude, and which upto that time had remamed uncultivated or settled. Owing to. House in which William Penn lived, inPhiladelphia This house, formerly in Letitia Court, nowstands in Fairmount Park. lO ELEMENTARY HISTORY AND GOVERNMENT the inaccurate maps, the fact did not appear that a circle drawntwelve miles from Newcastle would be many miles south of thefortieth parallel. If Lord Baltimores claim were valid, all ofPenns new city would have lain within the limits of based his interpretation on the fact that the land in had already been occupied by the Dutch and Swedes andhence was not uncultivat(?d.
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