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From: "craig o'donnell" <>
Subject: Re: LOWER-DELMARVA-ROOTS-D Digest V04 #93
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 07:20:13 -0400
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>Today I'm a lot less confused!! Thanks to John Lyon who helped me with
>the location of a tract of land owned by John Goddard of Somerset County,
>MD called "Day's Beginning." Seems now its in Sussex County, DE which is
>due to the Mason-Dixon Line. How ironic! I live due west at the base of
>the northern panhandle of West Virginia, just about three miles south of
>the Mason-Dixon Line.

Well, there are three Mason-Dixon lines, or two and a half, since they
accepted the work of earlier surveyors concerning the "transpeninsular
line" at the southern end of Delaware.
--
Craig O'Donnell
Sinepuxent Ancestors & Boats
<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~fassitt/>;
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American Proas, the Bolger Boat Honor Roll,
Plywood Boats, Bamboo Rafts, &c.
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