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Charles Calvert, the 3rd Lord Baltimore, died in 1715, and William Penn died in 1718. Benedict Calvert, 4th Baron Baltimore died just two months after his father, so the boundary dispute was carried forth by Charles Calvert, 5th Baron Baltimore on Maryland's side, and by Penn's children John, Thomas, and Richard on the Pennsylvania side.
A map commissioned by Charles Calvert in 1732 which showed Cape Henlopen at Fenwick Island was used to decide the matter, although the map commissioned by Calvert was based on a 1651 map by Nicholas Visscher owned by William Penn. Calvert had accepted Penn's map which depicted Cape Henlopen at approximately 38°27′ N. [2] Calvert discovered ...
Penn v Lord Baltimore (1750) 1 Ves Sen 444 was a judicial decision of Lord Hardwicke LC in relation to the long-running Penn–Calvert boundary dispute. [1]The case is important both as a legal precedent under English law (in relation to the extent to which the English courts may act in relation to matters involving title to foreign land), [2] [3] [4] but also as an event in its own right ...
The boundaries of the circle were the focal point of the 80-year Penn–Calvert boundary dispute. The fact that the circle extends into the Delaware River makes for an unusual territorial possession; within the 12-mile circle, all the Delaware River to the low-tide mark on the east ( New Jersey ) side is territory of the state of Delaware ...
The border between Maryland and Delaware, which resulted from the 80-year-long Penn–Calvert Boundary Dispute, consists of the east–west Transpeninsular Line and the perpendicular north–south portion of the Mason–Dixon line extending north to just beyond its tangential intersection with the Twelve-Mile Circle which forms Delaware's ...
The Calvert estate at Woodcote Park, in a later engraving by John Hassell circa 1816 Captain Charles Calvert, likely the 3rd Baron Baltimore's illegitimate son. Calvert's political difficulties did not end with the loss of Maryland. In 1694, he was named in connection with the Titus Oates plot, although he successfully evaded arrest. In 1696 ...
The original charter granted the Calverts a province with a boundary line that started "from the promontory or headland, called Watkin's Point, situate upon the bay aforesaid near the river Wighco on the West, unto the main ocean on the east; and between that boundary on the south, unto that part of the bay of Delaware on the north, which lyeth ...
Penn–Calvert boundary dispute; Public land state; Public Land Survey System; R. Railroad land grants in the United States; S. Slave states and free states