Directory of Dixon, Jeremiah Resources

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Born 1733 - Died 1779 British surveying engineer responsible for the surveying of the Mason and Dixon Line between Maryland and Pennsylvania.

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• Jeremiah Dixon

  http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/extra/dixon_bio.html
  Brief biography.

• Letter of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon

  http://msa.maryland.gov/msa/speccol/sc2200/sc2221/000017/000014/html/0000.html
  Facsimile of letter dated October 1767 concerning the halting of the boundary line survey. From the Maryland state archives.

• Mason & Dixon at the Cape

  http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/mason-dixon/extra/cape.html
  Essay on a visit to South Africa in 1761. From the Monthly Notes of the Astronomical Society of South Africa, November 1951.

• On First Reading Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon

  http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/pschmid1/essays/pynchon/mason.html
  Essay by Peter Schmidt.

 

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