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From: "jan1940" <>
Subject: [PA] Fw: PA Map Mason Dixon Line
Date: Sun, 6 May 2007 12:22:24 -0400

http://freespace.virgin.net/john.cletheroe/usa_can/usa/mas_dix.htm


----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Renninger" <>
To: <>
Sent: Saturday, May 05, 2007 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [PA] PA Map


> Karen:
>
> Don't know for sure, however I suspect the Mason-Dixon line extension
> was the solution. Both Mason and Dixon were dead many years prior to the
> "War Between the States."
>
> Don Renninger
> Jacksonvillw, FL
>
> Karen Hoy wrote:
>
>>My husband's family is from that area of PA, and it was in dispute with
>>Virginia (now West Virginia). I believe you are speaking of Monongalia
>>county, now in West Virginia. The counties in PA are Washington, Fayette,
>>Westmoreland and Greene; and they were claimed by Virginia.
>>
>>I, too am interested in the date of the map that you post. A relative
>>from
>>Greene County, PA was a volunteer in the Virginia regiment during the
>>Revolution, so the people in that area considered themselves Virginians.
>>
>>What caused the dispute to be resolved?
>>
>>Karen
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From:
>>[mailto:] On Behalf Of herb_316
>>Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 7:34 AM
>>To:
>>Subject: Re: [PA] PA Map
>>
>>Dear Allen,
>>
>>An interesting map, I wonder why it did not show the area that was a
>>boundary dispute with Virginia.
>>
>>If you research Virginia records you will find that there are numerous
>>reference back in the 1700s to land that now is PA and at that time was
>>considered VA. All this land was in the western part of PA. One of the
>>counties started with "M".
>>
>>God Bless.
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Alan Buckingham
>> To: ;
>> Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:28 AM
>> Subject: [PA] PA Map
>>
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I just posted a map showing the Pennsylvania Boundary Disputes. It's
>> from
>> the book "The Making of Pennsylvania" which I have also been posting.
>>This,
>> however, is listed under the maps section of
>> http://www.midatlanticarchives.com
>>
>> Alan
>> RESEARCHING: Buckingham, Gilpin, Eastburn, Jeanes, Nowland, Wade,
>>Creswell,
>> Vansant and related families
>>
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