 | Isaac Sharpless - Pennsylvania - 1900 - 456 pages
...degree of northern latitude, and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles distance from Newcastle northward and westward unto the beginning of the fortieth...northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned. ' ' The evident intention of the king was to give Penn... | |
 | Mrs. Lillian Ione Rhoades MacDowell - Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1900 - 396 pages
...political circles. At an early date he was employed by the Penn family to determine the "circle drawn twelve miles distance from New Castle, northward and...westward, unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of north latitude." The Penns were pleased with his work, and paid him liberally. For over eighty years... | |
 | George Hodges - Pennsylvania - 1901 - 158 pages
...the north by the beginning of the three and fortieth degree of northern latitude and on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles distance from New Castle,...northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned." This was a country almost as large as England. No such... | |
 | Newton Dennison Mereness - Maryland - 1901 - 560 pages
...to the line between Pennsylvania and Maryland was that the former should be bounded on the south "by a circle drawn at twelve miles distance from New Castle, northward and westward to the beginning of the fortieth degree of north latitude, and thence by a straight line westward."2... | |
 | Cadwallader Colden - Iroquois Indians - 1902 - 412 pages
...Degree of Northern Latitude, and on the South by a Circle drawn at twelve Miles Distance from Newcastle Northward, and Westward unto the beginning of the...fortieth Degree of Northern Latitude, and then by a strait Line Westwards to the Limits of Longitude abovementioned. SECT. II. WE do also give and grant... | |
 | Clayton Colman Hall - Maryland - 1902 - 256 pages
...the grant was made, it was discovered that the southern boundary of Pennsylvania was to be defined by a circle drawn at twelve miles distance from New Castle northward and westward to the beginning of the fortieth degree of north latitude, and thence by a straight line westward.... | |
 | John Fiske - Middle Atlantic States - 1903 - 524 pages
...beginning of the three and fortieth degree of Northern Latitude, and on the South by a Circle drawne at twelve miles distance from New Castle Northward...fortieth degree of Northern Latitude, and then by a streight Line Westward to the Limitt of Longitude above-mentioned. WEE do also give and grant unto... | |
 | Howard Malcolm Jenkins - Pennsylvania - 1903 - 658 pages
...when the grant to Penn was drawn up, and it was provided that part of his southern boundary should be "a circle drawn at twelve miles distance from New...beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude," the same impression prevailed. It would have been absurd to employ this description had it then been... | |
 | Howard Malcolm Jenkins - Pennsylvania - 1903 - 672 pages
...on the south, by a circle drawn at twelve miles distance from New Castle Northwards, and Westwards unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of Northern Latitude; and then by a straight line Westwards, to the limitt of Longitude above mentioned. Wee Doc also give and grant unto the said William... | |
 | John Montgomery Gambrill - Maryland - 1904 - 412 pages
...finally issued, no mention was made of this fort, but Penn's province was to be bounded " on the south by a circle drawn at twelve miles' distance from New...northern latitude, and then by a straight line westward," — geographically impossible boundaries. The way was thus opened for long and bitter disputes between... | |
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... distance from New Castle, northward and westward, unto the beginning of the fortieth degree of northern latitude ; and then by a straight line westward to the limits of longitude above mentioned. 
