MDDM Cumulative Bibliography

[Dave Monroe]

See in particular here ...

Clerc, Charles.  Mason & Dixon & Pynchon.
   Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2000.

Foreman, David.  "Historical Documents Relating
   to Mason & Dixon."  Pynchon and Mason & Dixon.
   Ed. Brooke Horvath and Irving Malin.  Newark:
   U of Delaware P, 2000.  143-66

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... which identify many of the following as possible
sources for M&D.  A few annotations/deployments ...

--- jbor <jbor at bigpond.com> wrote:
> 
> Cope, Thomas D. 'A Frame of Reference for Mason
> and Dixon'. Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Academy
> of Science 19, 1945.

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> Cummings, Hubertis M. _The Mason and Dixon Line:
> Story for a Bicentenary 1763-1963_. Harrisburg,
> Pennsylvania: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1963.
>
> Danson, Edwin. _Drawing the Line: How Mason and
> Dixon Surveyed the Most Famous Border in America_.
> New York: John Wiley & Sons, 2001.

E.g. ...

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> Ecenbarger, William. _Walkin' the Line: A Journey
> from Past to Present along the Mason-Dixon_. New
> York: M.Evans & Co., 2000.
>
> Hollis, H.P. 'Jeremiah Dixon and His Brother'.
> _Journal of the British Astronomical Association_
> 44.8, 1934: pp. 294-9.
>
> Latrobe, John H.B. _The History of Mason and
> Dixon's Line_. Philadelphia: Historical Society of
> Pennsylvania, 1855.
>
> http://www.webincunabula.com/html/la/latrobe.htm

http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/extra/handwriting.html

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> Lefever, Barbara Susan. _The Stargazers_. York,
> Pennsylvania: Printing Express, 1986. (novel)

http://www.psls.org/info/booklist.htm

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> Mason, A Hughlett (ed.). _The Journal of Charles
> Mason and Jeremiah Dixon_. Philadelphia: American
> Philosophical Society, 1969.

Included, albeit without most of the technical data
plus other omissions, as an appendix to ...

Clerc, Charles.  Mason & Dixon & Pynchon.
   Lanham, MD: UP of America, 2000.  153-229.

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> Mathews, Edward Bennett. 'History of the Boundary
> Dispute between the Baltimores and Penns Resulting
> in the Original Mason and Dixon Line.' Report
> on the Resurvey of the Maryland-Pennsylvania
> Boundary. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Harrisburg
> Publishing, 1909.
>
> Miers, Earl Schenck. _Border Romance: The Story
> of the Exploits of Charles Mason and Jeremiah
> Dixon_. Newark, Delaware: Spiral Press, 1965.

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> Robinson, H.W. 'Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779): A
> Biographical Note', _Proceedings of the American
> Philosophical Society_. 93.3, 1950: pp. 272-4.

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> St. George, Judith. _Mason and Dixon's Line of
> Fire_. Putnam, 1991.

And if I might add ...

Burchard, Edward L. and Edward B. Matthews.
   "Manuscripts and Publications Relating to the
   Mason and Dixon Line and Other Lines in
   Pennsylvania, Maryland, and the Virginias."
   Report of the Resurvey of the Maryland-
   Pennsylvania Boundary.  Harrisburg, PA:
   Harrisburg Publishing, 1909.  205-403.

As well as, e.g., ...

Cope, Thomas D.  "A Clock Sent Thither by the
   Royal Society," Proceedings of the American
   Philosophical Society, Vol. 94, No. 3 (June
   1950): 260-71

Maskelyne, Nevil.  "Observations on a Clock of Mr.
   John Shelton, Made at St. Helena."  Philosophical
   Transactions of the Royal Society  52 (2), Art.
   66 (1762)

Mason, Charles.  "Observations for Proving the Going
   of Mr. Ellicott's Clock at St. Helena."  Phil.
   Trans.  52 (2), Art. 86 (1762)

Short, James.  "An Account of Mr. Mason's Paper,
   Concerning the Going of Mr. Ellicott's Clock at
   St. Helena."  Phil. Trans. 52 (2), Art. 87 (1762)

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I'll be back with more secondary, even tertiary,
references soon as possible ...

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