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mid-1600’s when the Dutch Government and the Calverts of Maryland both claimed the big peninsula between die Delaware and Chesapeake Bayj.
After the Dutch were pushed out ’of the region, William Penn inherited the dispute with his royal charter for Pennsylvania and adjoining land. The bickering over conflicting interpretations of Penn and Calvert charters continued for generations, and the case eventually came before England’s Court of Chancery.
The Court gave a compromise decision in 1750. It specified that tne deleneation of the Penmsylvania-Maryland borders should begin at a certain point southwest of Philadelphia and West of New Castle.
From that point the main boundary was to be drawn westward. A second line would run southward into the heart of the peninsula and meet a third reaching eastward to the Atlantic coast. The proposed lines gave Maryland a bulk of the peninsula. Pennsylvania retained the northeast portion that later attained independence as Delaware State. ' The disputants signed the agreement in 1760. Local surveyors then began work, but made so little progress that Mason and Dixon were /'ollovJ in
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