An American history . ith a grant of land in America. Consequently, in 1681,Charles paid his debt by issuing to Penn a charter for theproprietary colony of Pennsylvania.^ ^ The grant to Penn involved him in a dispute with Maryland. Pennsyl-vania was described as extending westward 5° from the Delaware; its northernboundary was to be the beginning of the three and fourtieth degree of Northernlatitude; its southern boundary a circle drawn at twelve miles distant fromNew Castle northward and westward into the beginning of the fortieth degreeof Northern Latitude and then by a straight line westwar
An American history . ith a grant of land in America. Consequently, in 1681,Charles paid his debt by issuing to Penn a charter for theproprietary colony of Pennsylvania.^ ^ The grant to Penn involved him in a dispute with Maryland. Pennsyl-vania was described as extending westward 5° from the Delaware; its northernboundary was to be the beginning of the three and fourtieth degree of Northernlatitude; its southern boundary a circle drawn at twelve miles distant fromNew Castle northward and westward into the beginning of the fortieth degreeof Northern Latitude and then by a straight line westward. The town of NewCastle, on the west side of the Delaware, proved to be far south of the fortiethdegree. The circle drawn around it did not at any point touch that the south boundary of Pennsylvania was an impossible line. Penn claimedthat the beginning of the fortieth degree was on the line of the thirty-ninthparallel. The dispute was not settled in Penns lifetime; and was carried on 94 AMERICAN HISTORY. BOUNDARY DISPUTE BETWEEN MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA by his descendants. At last a compromise was made and the present Hnebetween Maryland and Pennsylvania was agreed upon. The straight part ofit is latitude 39° 43 26. It was run by two surveyors named Mason andDixon in 1767. Hence it has been called ever since Mason and Dixonsline. That region west of the lower Delaware which was once New Sweden was alsogiven to Pcnn. It was known as the Territories and was plainly within thelimits of the grant to Baltimore (section 77, note). But the claim of Marylandto this region was ignored. It forms the present state of Delaware, organizedin 1701, under a charter granted by Penn. The government set up under thecharter was similar to that of Pennsylvania. .THE SECOND ADVANCE OF THE ENGLISH 95 Immediately Penn set about putting into practice what hecalled his Holy Experiment. He dreamed of establishingan ideal republic, in which, as he said, the will of one man should not any
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