III: Memorandum of John B. Ashe Comparing Distances from Petersburg, Va., to Charleston, S.C., via Edenton and Halifax, N.C., February 1791

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Memorandum of John B. Ashe Comparing Distances from Petersburg, Va., to Charleston, S.C., via Edenton and Halifax, N.C.

From Petersburg in Virginia to Charleston S.C. Via Edenton is 504 Miles. To wit.

From Petersburg	to Suffolk	84 Miles
	to Edenton	58
	to Washington	60
	to New bern	40	242
	to New river	60
	to Wilmington	41
	to Bound[ar]y house	40
	to George town	60
	to Charleston	61	504

From Petersburg to Charleston Via Halifax N.C. is 460 m. To wit From Petersburg

to Olivers Tavern	26 Miles
To Hick’s ford	19
To Halifax NC	28
To Slaughters Tavern	21
To Tarborough	14
To Greene Ville	25
To Allens Tavern	11

To Kemps ferry1	22
To New bern	10
To New River	61
To Wilmington	40
To boundary house	40
To George Town	60
To Charleston	60	437

AD, DLC:GW.

1. Kemp’s ferry on the Neuse River is the same ferry referred to in Document I as “Custis’s Ferry.” In the eighteenth century the ferry at this point was also referred to as Curtis’s, Graves’s, and Street’s ferry (Diaries description begins Donald Jackson and Dorothy Twohig, eds. The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. Charlottesville, Va., 1976–79. description ends , 6:116).

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Title: III: Memorandum of John B. Ashe Comparing Distances from Petersburg, Va., to Charleston, S.C., via Edenton and Halifax, N.C., February 1791
Author: Ashe, John Baptista
Recipient: Washington, George
Date: February 1791

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Cite as: “III: Memorandum of John B. Ashe Comparing Distances from Petersburg, Va., to Charleston, S.C., via Edenton and Halifax, N.C., February 1791,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/05-07-02-0267-0004. [Original source: The Papers of George Washington, Presidential Series, vol. 7, 1 December 1790 – 21 March 1791, ed. Jack D. Warren, Jr. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1998, pp. 478–479.]

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