Message from the Governor of Maryland,: Transmitting the Reports of the Joint Commissioners, and of Lt. Col. Graham, U.S. Engineers, in Relation to the Intersection of the Boundary Lines of the States of Maryland, Pennsylvania, & DelawareCommission on Boundary Lines between Delaware, Maryland, and Pennsylvania (1850), James Duncan Graham, Maryland. Governor (1848-1851 : Thomas) Gideon and Company, 1850 - 87 Seiten |
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aforesaid agreed angle of deflection arms of Lord BENJAMIN CHEW Cape Henlopen Castle court house centre chains chord circle of twelve City of Philadelphia commissioners met according computed corner of Maryland curve direction distance due north line English statute miles feet fixed Frederick Lord Baltimore GEORGE READ RIDDLE given by Mason ground H. G. S. KEY hundred inches Jeremiah Dixon JOHN BARCLAY length letter Lord Baltimore graved LUKENS Mason and Dixon MCCLEAN measured ments meridian Messrs middle point mile post mile stone monuments north-east corner November offsets parallel of latitude peninsula Penn and Richard Pennsyl point of intersection proceedings proprietors province of Maryland province of Pennsylvania radius of twelve right angles river Susquehannah Sideling hill sides facing spire stations survey surveyors tangent stone theodolite Thomas Penn tion traced triangulation true tangent point twelve English statute twelve miles radius unmarked stone vania west side westward
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Seite 42 - This Indenture, Made the Fifteenth Day of March in the fifteenth year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third King of Great Britain, &c.
Seite 40 - Castle semi-circle, it should be run further northward until it reached the same latitude as fifteen English statute miles due south of the most southern part of the city of Philadelphia...
Seite 65 - On measuring the angle of our last line, with the direction from Newcastle, it was so near a right angle that, on a mean from our Lines, the above mentioned Post is the true Tangent Point.
Seite 40 - Philadelphia, and have extended the said line, two hundred and eighty miles, eighteen chains and twenty-one links due west from the place of beginning ; and two hundred and forty-four miles, thirty-eight chains and thirty-six links due west from the river Delaware : and should have continued the same to the end of five degrees of longitude, the western bounds of the Province of Pennsylvania, but the Indians would not permit us. And that we have marked, described, and perpetuated the said west line,...
Seite 37 - July, one thousand seven hundred and sixty, to have been run by other commissioners, formerly appointed by the said Charles, Lord Baltimore, and the said Thomas Penn and Richard Penn, across the peninsula, from Cape Henlopen to Chesapeake Bay, the exact middle of which said east and west line is at the distance of thirty-four miles and three hundred and nine perches from the verge of the main ocean, the eastern end or beginning of the said due east and west line ; and that we have extended the said...
Seite 41 - Baltimore graved thereon, and the other intermediate stones are graved with the letter P on the north side, and the letter M on the south side ; and that the country to the westward of Sideling hill, being so very mountainous as to render it in most places extremely difficult and expensive, and in some impracticable, to convey stones or boundaries which had been prepared and marked as aforesaid, to their proper stations, we have marked and described the said line from Sideling hill to the top of...
Seite 5 - Clerk of the Court of Appeals of Maryland, do hereby certify that the foregoing is a full and true copy of the...
Seite 10 - ... line, being the place of intersection of the said north line, with the parallel of latitude, at the distance of fifteen English statute miles due south of the most southern part of the city of Philadelphia...
Seite 41 - Ridge, which divides the waters running into the rivers Potowmack and Ohio, by raising and erecting thereon, on the tops of ridges and mountains over which the said line passed, heaps or piles of stones or earth, from about three and a half to four yards in diameter, at bottom, and from six to seven feet in height, and that from the top of the said Alleghany Ridge westward, as far as we have continued the said line, we have set up posts at the end of every mile, and raised round each post, heaps...
Seite 69 - Lordship doth declare that he is of opinion that according to the true intent and construction of the said articles, the centre of the...