41st parallel north

In the First Virginia Charter, he gave the London Company the right to "begin their Plantation and Habitation in some fit and convenient place between four and thirty and one and forty degrees of the said latitude all alongst the coast of Virginia and coasts of America."

The later Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony) settlers were originally bound for the northern portion of the Virginia territory.

[2] As originally set by King Charles II of England in 1664, the point at which the 41st parallel crosses the Hudson River marks the northeastern border between New Jersey and New York.

This border then proceeds northwest to the Tri-States Monument at the confluence of the Delaware and Neversink rivers.

It also served as the baseline for a later survey of Ohio land north of the Greenville Treaty line up to the Fulton line which was the original boundary between Michigan and Ohio under the Northwest Ordinance (see the Toledo Strip).