DeSotoSky
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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)
On May 25, 1738, the 8 year Conojocular War, also known as Cresap’s War, between Maryland and Pennsylvania, ended.
In 1632, England's King Charles I granted a charter for Maryland with the upper boundary fixed at the 40th parallel. The 1681, King Charles II granted the Pennsylvania Charter defining the Southern border to be defined by a 12 mile arc drawn from New Castle Delaware intersecting the 40th parallel and continuing Westward. Problem was, later more accurate later surveys showed the 40th Parallel to be 25 miles above New Castle and actually just above Philadelphia. Maryland was insisting on the border to be the actual location of the 40th parallel, particularly west of the Sesquehenna, and Pennsylvania was arguing for a compromised border based on the geographic misunderstanding. This created a 28 mile wide band of disputed territory. The problem festered for many decades but as more and more settlers moved in armed conflict broke out by 1730.
A 1724 Royal order forbade both colonies from establishing more settlements in the disputed territory, primarily West of the Sesquehenna River in the Conejohela Valley, until they worked out agreement between each other. Of course they didn't and both sides ignored the order. By 1730 an increasing number of Pennsylvania Dutch settlers were crossing the Sesquehenna into the disputed areas alarming Lord Baltimore. To counter this Thomas Cresap was granted title to lands on the Western side of the Sesquehenna to act as a land agent for Maryland. Neither Cresap or the settlers had clear title but Cresap forced settlers to buy their farms from him or evicting them forcibly. There was a lot of bloody conflict. By 1736 Maryland moved Militia into the territory and Pennsylvania by 1737 escalating the fighting.
In 1738, King George II compelled a cease fire and there was a negotiated agreement signed on May 25, 1738 that the border would be fixed 15 miles South of Philadelphia. That border would finally be officially defined when British astronomer Charles Mason and surveyor Jeremiah Dixon completed surveying their now famous Mason–Dixon line in 1767. (39°43'19.521" North). I always thought the term "Mason-Dixon" line had its origin in the Civil War as the separation of non slave states above and slave states below, turns out it pre-dates the Civil War by a good hundred years..... And now I know.
Cresap's War - Wikipedia
My opening this week is a really interesting 805 "Signature Series". That's the name Buck gave these but happily this one isn't 'signatured'. Gold Ion Fusion blade sharpened one side only. No box so no codes to help and I assume 420HC, no markings to the contrary. This one has a standard 2004 date code (compare to the original 805 below with a CUSTOM tang stamp. The sheath is too long, probably for a 119 size blade. I have searched the Forums, Newsletters and Special Projects Lists and can find no reference to it. Does anyone else have one or ever seen one? I'll have to check but I don't think Buck was doing the single bevel Ion Fusion blades past about 2000 so that makes this kind of a fish out of the water.
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