PRIMARY SOURCES

Barber, Rhoda. “Journal of Settlement at Wright’s Ferry on Susquehanna River.” Handwritten manuscript, Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Calvert Papers. Historical Society of Maryland (microfilm) and Library of Congress, American Memory. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.htm.

Charter of Maryland. Maryland State Archives, Microfilm MSA SC M3145, p. 15. Also online at http://www.msa.md.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc4800/sc4872/003145/html/m3145-0012.html.

Chew Family Papers. Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

Correspondence of Governor Sharpe. Maryland State Archives.

Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863. National Archives & Records Administration. http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/transcript.html. The original handwritten text can be viewed at http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclamation/index.html.

“Frederick Douglass’s Address.” The North Star 1, no. 32: 2.

Frederick Douglass’ Paper. Accessible Archives, Northern Illinois University Library.

George Washington Papers, 1741–1799: Series 2 Letterbooks. Library of Congress, American Memory. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.htm.

Jeremiah Dixon’s will. The Mason & Dixon Line Preservation Partnership. http://www.mdlpp.org.

Mason, Charles. The Journal of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. Transcribed by A. Hughlett Mason. Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 76, 1969. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society. Mason’s handwritten journal is digitized and available online at National Archives Online Public Access: Minutes and Papers of the Mason and Dixon Survey, 1760–1768. National Archives and Records Administration. http://research.archives.gov/description/5821514.

Minutes of the Boundary Commission. American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia.

Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia: Jos. Severns, 1852. New York: AMS Press, 1968, vols. 3 and 9. Also Pennsylvania Archives: Colonial Records, http://www.fold3.com.

Pennsylvania Archives: [1st ser.]: selected and arranged from original documents in the Office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, conformably to acts of the General Assembly, February 15, 1851, and March 1, 1852. Edited by Samuel Hazard. Vols. 1 and 2. Philadelphia: Jos. Severns, 1852.

Pennsylvania Archives, Cumberland County, Clerk of Court-Slave Returns Inventory. George Stevenson, 1780.050. http://records.ccpa.net/weblink_public_print/DocView.aspx?id=237572&dbid=7.

Pennsylvania Charter. Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission. http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/documents_from_1681_-_1776,_colonial_days/20421/pennsylvania_charter/998169.

Pennsylvania Gazette. Accessible Archives, Northern Illinois University Library.

Proceedings of the Council of Maryland. Archives of Maryland Online. http://msa.maryland.gov/megafile/msa/speccol/sc2900/sc2908/html/volumes.html.

Shippen Papers. American Philosophical Society.

South Carolina Gazetteer; and Country Journal

Thomas Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton. August 26, 1776. University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. http://jeffersonswest.unl.edu/archive/view_doc.php?id=jef.00099.

William Johnson Papers. New York State Library digital edition, 2008. http://nysl.nysed.gov/uhtbin/cgisirsi/20120812192457/SIRSI/0/518/0/423659/Content/1?new_gateway_db=ILINK.

BOOKS

Bailey, Kenneth P. Thomas Cresap: Maryland Frontiersman. Boston: Christopher Publishing House, 1944.

Bradford, Sarah H. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman. Auburn, NY: W. J. Moses, 1869.

Brubaker, Jack. Massacre of the Conestogas: On the Trail of the Paxton Boys in Lancaster County. Charleston, SC: History Press, 2010.

Cummings, Hubertis M. The Mason and Dixon Line, Story for a Bicentenary, 1763–1963. Harrisburg, PA: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Dept. of Internal Affairs, 1962.

Danson, Edwin. Drawing the Line: How Mason and Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America. New York: Wiley, 2001.

DePree, Christopher, and Alan Axelrod. The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Astronomy. New York: Alpha Books, 1999.

Douglass, Frederick. Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Hartford: Park Publishing, 1881.

Dunn, Mary Maples, and Richard S. Dunn, eds. The Papers of William Penn. Vols. 1 and 2. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981 and 1982.

Ecenbarger, William. Walkin’ the Line: A Journey from Past to Present along the Mason-Dixon. New York: M. Evans, 2000.

Fantel, Hans. William Penn: Apostle of Dissent. New York: Morrow, 1974.

Hall, Clayton Colman, ed. Narratives of Early Maryland, 1633–1684. New York: Scribner’s, 1910.

Hensel, W. U. The Christiana Riot and the Treason Trials of 1851. 1911. Reprint. New York: Negro Universities Press, 1969.

Heywood, Linda M., and John K. Thornton. Central Africans, Atlantic Creoles, and the Foundation of the Americas, 1585–1660. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Jackson, Donald, and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. Vol. 1. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1976. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gwhtml/gwhome.html.

Kenny, Kevin. Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Krugler, John D. English and Catholic: The Lords Baltimore in the Seventeenth Century. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.

Land, Aubrey C. Colonial Maryland, a History. New York: KTO Press, 1981.

Member of the Philadelphia Bar. A History of the Trial of Castner Hanway and Others for Treason at Philadelphia in November, 1851. Philadelphia: Uriah Hunt & Sons, 1852. http://archive.org/details/historyoftrialof00memb.

Moché, Dinah L. Astronomy: A Self-Teaching Guide. New York: Wiley, 2000.

Moore, Patrick. Exploring the Night Sky with Binoculars. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

Nash, Gary B., and Jean R. Soderlund. Freedom by Degrees: Emancipation in Pennsylvania and Its Aftermath. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Peare, Catherine Owens. William Penn: a Biography. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1957.

Penn, William. A Collection of the Works of William Penn, to Which Is Prefixed a Journal of His Life, with Many Original Letters and Papers Not before Published. London: J. Sowle, 1726. Vol. 1, The Author’s Life, p. 1. http://archive.org/stream/collectionofwork01penn#page/n0/mode/2up.

Pepys, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983.

Riordan, Timothy B. The Plundering Time: Maryland and the English Civil War, 1645–1646. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 2004.

Silver, Peter. Our Savage Neighbors: How Indian War Transformed Early America. New York: Norton, 2008.

Soderlund, Jean R., ed. William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania, 1680–1684: A Documentary History. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1983.

Slaughter, Thomas P. Bloody Dawn: The Christiana Riot and Racial Violence in the Antebellum North. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Tanner, Helen Hornbeck, ed. Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987.

Walsh, Lorena S. Motives of Honor, Pleasure, and Profit: Plantation Management in the Colonial Chesapeake, 1607–1763. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010.

ARTICLES

Babcock, Todd M. “Stargazers, Ax-men and Milkmaids: The Men who Surveyed Mason and Dixon’s Line.” The Mason & Dixon Line Preservation Partnership. http://www.mdlpp.org/?page=library.

Carr, Lois Green, and Lorena S. Walsh. “The Planter’s Wife: The Experience of White Women in Seventeenth-Century Maryland.” William and Mary Quarterly 3rd series, 34, no. 4: 542–571.

Cope, Thomas D. “Some Contacts of Benjamin Franklin with Mason and Dixon and Their Work.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 95, no. 3: 232–238.

Douglass, Frederick. “Freedom’s Battle at Christiana.” Frederick Douglass’ Paper, September 25, 1851.

Foster, James W. “George Calvert: His Yorkshire Boyhood.” Maryland Historical Magazine 55, no. 4: 261–273.

Hayes, J. Carroll. “Penn vs. Lord Baltimore: A Brief for the Penns, In Re Mason and Dixon Line.” Pennsylvania History 8, no. 4: 278–303.

Heindel, R. Heathcote. “An Early Episode in the Career of Mason and Dixon.” Pennsylvania History 6, no. 1: 20–24.

Hopkins, Donald R. “Ramses V: Earliest Known Victim?” World Health, May 1980.

“John Randolph of Roanoke.” Connecticut Courant 69, no. 3570 (June 24, 1833): 1.

Mason, C., and J. Dixon. “Observations Made at the Cape of Good Hope; by Mr. Charles Mason and Mr. Dixon; reduced to apparent Time by Mr. Mason.” Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 1761 52: 378–394.

Nash, Roderick W. “William Parker and the Christiana Riot.” The Journal of Negro History 16, no. 1: 24–31.

Parker, William. “The Freedman’s Story.” Atlantic Monthly 17, no. 100 (February 1866): 152–167; 17, no. 101 (March 1866): 276–296.

Porter, William A., Andrew Porter, Ar. St. Clair, and H. Knox. “A Sketch of the Life of General Andrew Porter.” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 4, no. 3: 261–301.

Powell, Walter A. “Fight of a Century Between the Penns and Calverts.” Maryland Historical Magazine 29, no. 2: 83–101.

Sluiter, Engel. “New Light on the ‘20. and Odd Negroes’ Arriving in Virginia, August 1619.” The William and Mary Quarterly 3rd series, 54, no. 2: 395–398.

Torrence, Robert M. “The McClean Family and the Mason-Dixon Line.” Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine 20, no. 3. http://www.mdlpp.org/?page=library.

Wroth, Lawrence C. “The Story of Thomas Cresap, a Maryland Pioneer.” Maryland Historical Magazine 9, no. 1: 1–37.

SUGGESTED WEBSITES FOR FURTHER RESEARCH

The Mason & Dixon Line Preservation Partnership website contains a wealth of information about the line’s history and the locations of the boundary stones. http://www.mdlpp.org.

Paper Plate Education outlines an interesting activity to simulate the transit of Venus. http://analyzer.depaul.edu/paperplate/Transit%20of%20Venus/transit_frequency.htm.

World Atlas provides a tool for finding the latitude and longitude of your favorite locations. http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/latitude_and_longitude_finder.htm.