(MASON DIXON LINE) Contemporary report on the surveying of t

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(MASON-DIXON LINE.) Contemporary report on the surveying of the Mason-Dixon Line, in an issue of the Boston Chronicle, Volume 1, issue 2. Pages [13]-20, 10 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches, on 2 folding leaves; disbound, minor foxing and edge wear. Boston: Mein and Fleeming, 21 December 1767

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Describes a group of "11 Mohawk Indians who . . . proceeded with two surveyors, Mr. Dixon and Mr. Mason to run the line between Lord Baltimore and Mr. Penn: as they run this line through the Indians's land . . . among whom are the famous Hendrick, and some other principal headmen of the Mohawk nation, who finding the winter coming on, left the surveyor in order to return home this way." Mason and Dixon made their final measurements on the remote Pennsylvania-Virginia frontier on 11 October, and the Mohawks arrived in New York on 11 December.

This was just the second issue of the Boston Chronicle, which was a notable loyalist publication from December 1767 until its offices were looted by patriots in 1770. It also includes a long open letter from the freeholders of Boston to the legislature in opposition to the recently imposed Townshend Duties.