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    The PennCalvert boundary dispute (also known as Penn vs. Baltimore) was a long-running legal conflict between William Penn and his heirs on one side...
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  • 1740, at the age of 85, Steelman testified for the Penn family in the PennCalvert boundary dispute with Maryland. The testimony focused on the Susquehannock...
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    Penn v Lord Baltimore (1750) 1 Ves Sen 444 was a judicial decision of Lord Hardwicke LC in relation to the long-running PennCalvert boundary dispute...
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    Twelve-Mile Circle (category Internal territorial disputes of the United States)
    to Cape Lopen [Henlopen]. The boundaries of the circle were the focal point of the 80-year PennCalvert boundary dispute. The fact that the circle extends...
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    Mason–Dixon line (category Cultural boundaries)
    line, the boundary between the province of Quebec and the states of New York and Vermont Delaware Boundary Markers PennCalvert boundary dispute Mason and...
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    contested by the 2nd Lord Baltimore's heirs and the Penn family in the PennCalvert Boundary Dispute.[citation needed] Baltimore's fee for the Charter,...
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    Penn Avenue in Scranton, Penn Street in Bristol, Pennsylvania, and Pennfields in Twyford, Berkshire. PennCalvert boundary dispute Nicholas More Murphy,...
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    long-standing dispute between the Penns (Delaware) and the Calverts (Maryland), the latter claiming the Lewes' cape should have been the start of the boundary line...
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    Cecil Calvert, brother of Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore, proprietor of Maryland, and Thomas Penn and his brother Richard, sons of William Penn and...
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  • Circle, which was part of the resolution of the colonial-era Penn-Calvert Boundary Dispute among what would become the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland...
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    intransigence, but his hands were tied. Calvert oversaw the end of the long-running PennCalvert Boundary Dispute. On 9 March 1753, he married Lady Diana...
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    Maryland and Delaware, which resulted from the 80-year-long PennCalvert Boundary Dispute, consists of the east–west Transpeninsular Line and the perpendicular...
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    territory dating back to the PennCalvert boundary dispute. Maryland's historical connection stems from Cecil Calvert's 1632 charter, which originally...
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    grandson Mason and Dixon Survey Terminal Point Natural Lands PennCalvert boundary dispute White Clay Creek State Park, site of "Post mark'd west" "National...
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  • rights in its boundary dispute with Maryland. The ultimate resolution of this dispute was the surveying of the Mason–Dixon line. Penn, his brother Thomas...
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    to reach agreement. The dispute would outlast both Calvert and Penn, not being resolved until 1769. In 1684, Charles Calvert travelled to England, both...
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    Lisle (1749) Amb 75, 27 ER 47 Penn v Lord Baltimore (1750) 1 Ves Sen 444, in relation to the PennCalvert boundary dispute Legislation Marriage Act 1753...
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    the fortieth parallel, setting the stage for a boundary dispute. Maryland insisted that the boundary be drawn at the fortieth parallel as specified in...
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    struggle between the two families. Penn first commissioned a survey of the circle in 1701. As part of the boundary dispute, the two families created a Commission...
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    Line, one of the lines surveyed as part of the 18th-century PennCalvert boundary dispute. US 113 has a length of 37.26 miles (59.96 km) in Delaware,...
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    Delaware Wedge (category Internal territorial disputes of the United States)
    boundary of Delaware and to establish the Transpeninsular Line as its southern border. An agreement was also reached between the Calverts and Penns that...
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    present-day State of Maryland. The original charter granted the Calverts a province with a boundary line that started "from the promontory or headland, called...
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    quickly became engaged in a border dispute with Pennsylvania. Several settlers were taken prisoners on both sides and Penn sent a committee to Governor Ogle...
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    signing over to William Penn. It was called Durham County when claimed by the Lords Baltimore during the boundary dispute with the Penn family. According to...
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    willing to stand up for his beliefs. County boundary disputes continued, including of the northern boundary. Baltimore believed his Eastern Shore territory...
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    effective in defending civil liberties and settling boundary disputes; he represented William Penn's descendants and their proprietorships as the largest...
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    Mechanicsville, Delaware (category Internal territorial disputes of the United States)
    arising out of ambiguity in the 18th-century border dispute settlement between the Penns and Calverts in the British North American colonies. Until 1921...
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    Island was disputed between the family of William Penn, governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and Delaware Colony and the family of Cecil Calvert governor...
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    century. Penn viewed access to Delaware Bay as being so critical to Pennsylvania's survival that he engaged in an eighty-year long legal boundary dispute with...
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    Pennsylvania and Maryland, Thomas Penn and Frederick Calvert, sixth Baron Baltimore, to assist with resolving a boundary dispute between the two provinces. They...
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