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As part of the settlement, the Penns and Calverts commissioned the English team of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to survey the newly established boundaries between the Province of Pennsylvania, the Province of Maryland, Delaware Colony, and parts of Colony and Old Dominion of Virginia.
As part of the settlement, the Penns and Calverts commissioned the English team of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon to survey the newly established boundaries between the Province of Pennsylvania, the Province of Maryland, Delaware Colony and parts of Colony and Old Dominion of Virginia.
In May 1637, captains John Underhill and John Mason led a retaliatory mission through Narragansett land along with their allies, the Narragansett and Mohegan, and struck the Pequot settlement in Mystic.
The current village is actually the second settlement in Mason County to be named Free Soil.
George W. Todd established a Fort Mason post office March 8, 1858, which became consigned to the civilian settlement on June 26, 1858.
The Northern Paiutes living in Mason Valley, in what is now the U. S. state of Nevada, were known collectively as the Tövusi-dökadö ( Tövusi -: " Cyperus bulb " and dökadö: " eaters ") at the time of European-American settlement.
He was appointed a land commissioner and tasked with promoting settlement in the area purchased by John T. Mason.
The Oxford Mills settlement was founded in 1845 by local industrialist and mill-owner Hugh Mason who saw it as a model industrial community.
Mason estimated that establishing the settlement cost him around £ 10, 000 and would require a further £ 1, 000 a year to maintain ( about £ 600, 000 and £ 60, 000 respectively as of ), and that its annual mortality rate was significantly lower than in the rest of the town.
Permanent English settlement began after land grants were issued in 1622 to John Mason and Sir Ferdinando Gorges for the territory between the Merrimack and Sagadahoc ( Kennebec ) rivers, roughly encompassing present-day New Hampshire and western Maine.
After the success of the Plymouth settlement, much of the rest of the company's territory was given away in further grants to other colonial ventures, notably: the Massachusetts Bay Company in 1628, and the Province of Maine to Sir Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason in 1622.
Mason ceased to be Cuper's Cove governor in 1621 and apparently he was not replaced, although the settlement continued to be occupied throughout the seventeenth century.
The land east of the river was opened to white settlement in 1637 after the defeat of the Pequot by John Mason in the Pequot War.
Mitchelson's celebrity clients included Pamela Mason ( wife of James Mason ), who received a $ 2 million divorce settlement from her ex-husband, Robert De Niro, Mickey Rooney, Sylvester Stallone, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Joan Collins, Mel Tormé, Bianca Jagger, Lesley-Anne Down, Carl Sagan, Mrs. William Shatner, and many ex-wives of errant playboy sheiks.
When the insurance company denies the family a financial settlement Zoe takes matters into her own hands, which leads her to a new career as an insurance fraud investigator with handsome former criminal Dan Lennox ( played by Chris Potter ) and serious but sweet Sophia Mason ( played by Rae Dawn Chong ) becoming her partners.
" In a foreword to the book, former Chief Justice of Australia Sir Anthony Mason said that the book was " a fascinating study of the recent endeavours to rewrite or reinterpret the history of European settlement in Australia.

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At the point where they ended, another settlement grew up around a chapel built at the boat landing by Father Lucian Galtier in 1840.
" Light's Vision ", as it has been termed, has meant that the initial design of Adelaide required little modification as the settlement grew and prospered.
On both sides of the road, the local settlement, Bonna, grew into a sizeable Roman town.
From the fort, the Bonnburg, as well as from a new medieval settlement to the South centred around what later became the minster, grew the medieval city of Bonn.
At the same time, a settlement of residences, saloons, and various industries grew around the wharf area called " Ocean View.
Although Emsworth started as a small settlement it soon grew to be larger and more important.
Subsequently, networks facilitating the process of money transfer and payment settlement between the consumer and the merchant grew from a small number of nationwide systems to the majority of payment processing transactions.
The town grew up as a settlement next to a fort constructed to control the population after Oliver Cromwell's invasion during the English Civil War, and then to suppress the Jacobite uprisings of the 18th century.
The fort was named " Fort William "' after William of Orange, and the settlement that grew around it was called " Maryburgh ", after his wife.
A settlement grew up around this monastery, which survived until the Viking invasions in the eighth century.
The settlement grew up around the precincts of another Benedictine monastery, founded in AD 900-950 by Abbot Ulsinus ( also known as Wulsin ).
While the settlement today referred to as Hedeby / Haithabu lies on the south side of the Schlei inlet, the settlement that grew up at around the same time on the north side has had a continuous history of habitation to modern times, and has now grown into the town known as Schleswig and given its name to the surrounding province.
As the new settlement in Indiana grew, it also began to attract new arrivals, including emigrants from Germany, who expected the Harmonists to pay for their passage to America.
The settlement grew into a group of shacks built mostly with wreckage from the Amaranth ( lumber from which was also used by the young Hawaiian colonists to build surfboards ), but later, stone and wood dwellings were built and equipped with refrigeration, radio equipment, and a weather station.
The village that later grew out of this settlement was known as Kolachi-jo-Goth ( Village of Kolachi in Sindhi ).
Choosing what was possibly the continent's worst site for the first Spanish settlement in South America, in February 1536 Mendoza built a fort at a poor anchorage on the southern side of the Plata estuary on an inhospitable, windswept, dead-level plain where not a tree or shrub grew.
As a result of the immigration of new townsfolk from the surrounding villages a new settlement, later called Neustadt, grew up on the northeastern edge of the old town.
Between 1156 and 1162 Henry II granted the manor to his steward, Manasser Biset, and as the settlement grew a fair ( 1228 ) and later a market ( 1240 ) were established there.
The fur trader John Kinzie arrived in Chicago in 1804, and rapidly became the civilian leader of the small settlement that grew around the fort.
), Barbados quickly grew to became the third major English settlement in the Americas due to its prime eastern location.
The city grew out of the early Slavic settlement of Mis ( s ) ni, named for the small river Mis ( s ) na today Meis ( s ) abach ( see Miesbach / Musbach / Mosbach ), inhabited by the Slavic Glomacze tribe and was founded as a German town by King Henry the Fowler in 929.
The settlement of Battle, East Sussex, grew up around the abbey and is now a small market town.
From the 19th century, the settlement grew to be an important coal mining center, and its name was supplemented by the adjective Górnicza ( which refers to mining ) in 1919, to distinguish it from such towns, as Dąbrowa Tarnowska and Dąbrowa Białostocka.
Second, the shift in settlement patterns was catalyzed by a marked change in the weather, particularly affecting the eastern desert, which grew warmer and drier, eventually becoming entirely uninhabitable for most of year.

settlement and up
Early Pueblo I Era sites may have housed up to 600 individuals in a few separate but closely spaced settlement clusters.
Notably since US courts are reluctant to take up class actions brought on behalf of injured parties not residing in the US who have suffered damages due to acts or omissions committed outside the US, it may be interesting to combine a US class action and a Dutch collective action to be able come to a settlement that covers plaintiffs worldwide.
The famous silting up of the harbor for Bruges, which moved port commerce to Antwerp, also followed a period of increased settlement growth ( and apparently of deforestation ) in the upper river basins.
This committee was given until All Saints Day ( 1 November ) to come up with provisions for a settlement.
Both failed by allowing the political crisis to end up in the bloody Civil War and a comprehensive terror, instead of reaching a compromise to accomplish a peaceful political settlement.
This came about as a result of the rapid decline in the size of the British garrison from the mid-3rd century onwards ( thus freeing up more goods for export ), and because of ‘ Germanic ’ incursions across the Rhine, which appear to have reduced rural settlement and agricultural output in northern Gaul.
In 1908 the Zionist Organisation set up the Palestine Bureau ( also known as the " Eretz Israel Office ") in Jaffa and began to adopt a systematic Jewish settlement policy in Palestine.
Preliminary talks to set up conditions for official negotiations began between leading negotiators from both parties on July 10, and on July 22, the three party leaders met for the first time in Harare to express their support for a negotiated settlement of disputes arising out of the presidential and parliamentary elections.
During the Second World War, Finland fought twice against the Soviet Union and defended its independence, though in the process it in the 1947 peace settlement ended up ceding a large part of Karelia and some other areas to the Soviet Union.
By the treaty, the Choctaw signed away their remaining traditional homelands, opening them up for European-American settlement in Mississippi Territory.
During the reign of the Kalhora Dynasty, the present city started life as a fishing settlement when a Sindhi Balochi fisher-woman called Mai Kolachi took up residence and started a family.
The conversions from nomadism and paganism to settlement and Christianity also opened up new arenas of artistic expression, such as architecture ( especially churches ) and its accompanying decorative arts ( such as frescoes ).
The U. S. government had two purposes when making land agreements with Native Americans: to open it up more land for white settlement, and to ease tensions between whites and Native Americans by forcing Natives to use the land in the same way as did the whites-for subsistence farms.
Leaving a small force on the northern shore of the broad estuary, Cabot proceeded up the Río Paraná uneventfully for about 160 kilometres and founded a settlement he named Sancti Spiritu.
) as new land opened up for settlement ( e. g., modern Finnmark area in the northeast, to the coast of the Kola Peninsula ).
It was not until 1869 that peace was patched up, and the settlement arrived at left the mountain tribes in practical independence.
Originally the small settlement was controlled by abbots from the local abbey, and when the first weekly market was set up in 1107 by Henry I, he decreed that the proceeds go to Evesham Abbey.
Vikings under Leif Eriksson, heir to Erik the Red, reached North America, and set up a short-lived settlement in present-day L ' Anse aux Meadows, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada.
Winnie Mandela's attempt to obtain a settlement up to US $ 5 million, half of what she claimed her ex-husband was worth, was dismissed when she failed to appear at court for a financial settlement hearing.

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