General Records of the Department of State. 1763 - 2002. Journal of Mason and Dixon. 1763 - 1768. Journal of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon

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General Records of the Department of State. 1763 - 2002. Journal of Mason and Dixon. 1763 - 1768. Journal of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon

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Bryan, Alexander, 1733-1825

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Dixon, Jeremiah

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Charles Mason (Oakridge Lynch, Gloucestershire, April 1728– Philadelphia, October 25, 1786) was an English astronomer who made significant contributions to 18th-century science and American history, particularly through his involvement with the survey of the Mason-Dixon line, which came to mark the division between the northern and southern United States (1764-1768). From the guide to the Correspondence and accounts of the Mason and Dixon survey, 1758-1769, 1758-1769, (American Philo...

Mason, Charles (Charles Quinn), 1969-

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Epithet: Commissary of Army Accounts British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001301.0x0000c7 Charles Mason (1699-1771), geologist, matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1717 (B.A., 1723; M.A., 1726; B.D., 1736; D.D., 1749), where he became a Fellow in 1725. He was Professor of Geology, 1734-1762. Mason was ordained deacon in 1733. He became Vicar of Barrington, Cambridgeshire, in 1742, and was Rector of Orwell...