Thomas Jefferson Papers

Notes on Travel Distances Between the President’s House and Monticello, 30 June 1808

Sep. 1807-June 1808

1808. May 1808. June Sep. 07
President’s house Pr’s House } 7.95 Pr’s House
1.55
Geo. T. ferry Geo. T. ferry 5.67
Thomas’s X roads Thomas’s X roads .71
Wren’s } Wren’s .35
Richd. Fitzhugh’s 7.22 8.58 Falls church 8.30
1.59 Fairfx C.H. Fairfx C.H.
Lane’s 4.92 } 5.03 4.92
Songster’s Songster’s Songster’s
5.16 5.16 5.14
Bull run. yates’s Bull run Bull run
1.07 1.03 1.04
Hooe’s fork Hooe’s fork Hooe’s fork 1.15
(b)6.90 6.86 Center road 2.72
Ewell’s mill Ewell’s mill
[. . .] .74 Brown’s 1.76
7.34 Broad run 1.76
Slate r. ch. 5.59
Greenwich Greenwich 6.46 Cedar run 3.15
10.58 Brown’s road 4.42 Dumfries road 5.80
Fauqr. C.H. Fauqr. C.H. 6.15 Elk run ch.
6.82 6.89
Hedgeman Hedgeman 9.85
2.90 2.91
Jefferson Jefferson Norman’s ford
4.60 4.61 4.25
Rappahanoc Rappahanoc Herring’s .28
9.15 9.16 Strode’s 5.25
Culpep. C.H. Culp. C.H. Stevsbg [. . .]
12.55 12.33 Rappidan 8.30
(a) Robinson at isld. ford Robinson isld ford 3.72
Rapidan [. . .] Rapidan 5.15 Downey’s ford 2.10
Orange C.H. 5.84 Orange C.H. 3.35 leave river
10.33 [. . .] 4.17 Orange C.H. 7.32
(e) Gordon’s [. . .] 8.75 Montplr road 3.75
13.61 [. . .] Montpelier 1.38
Rogers’s road public road 3.66
Gordon’s 3.47 (d)
3.60
14.43 Walker’s mill 2.78
Edgehill 1.95 [. . .] Lindsay’s store .82
Bentivoglia 2.73
gate on the road .7[. . .] [. . .] [. . .] Belvoir ch. 1.92
Milton ferry [. . .] [. . .] Meriwt’s gate .62
Watson’s mill 2.07
Colle fork 3[. . .] [. . .] Roger’s gate .85
Beck’s gate [.97] (e)
1[. . .] [. . .] [. . .] Edgehill gate 1.78
Thoro’fare gate Shadwell mill .72
[. . .] [. . .] Damford mill
1.88
Monto. door Monto. door Monto. door

(e) July 22. from Or. C.H. to Bp’s town 4.18 to Gordon’s 5.15 = 9.33

(d) probably an error of a mile in this or more

(c) an error by the machine failing to run some time probably .10 this Edgehill gate is not the one on the river

(b.) there enters into this 6.90 a small conjectural distance

(a) near ½ mile of this 5.52 is lost by going to this, instead of the common ford.

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