1Enclosure: Itinerary from Georgetown Ferry to Edgehill, 30 April 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
crossed the Rappahannock River between Culpeper and
2From Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 2 September 1802 (Jefferson Papers)
conflates two unrelated rulings. In 1745 the Privy Council’s Committee on Plantation Affairs established the western boundary of the Northern Neck Proprietary and ordered a line surveyed from the headwaters of the southern branch of the Rappahannock River to the headwaters of the Potomac’s northern branch (Douglas Southall Freeman,
3From Thomas Jefferson to Bishop James Madison, 19 June 1803 (Jefferson Papers)
to represent the Crown’s interest in determining whether the Northern Neck proprietary should be bounded by the southern or northern branch of the Rappahannock River and
4To James Madison from Richard Bland Lee, 29 April 1805 (Madison Papers)
Lee may have referred to the ironworks planned for a tract of land on the Rappahannock River “a few miles above Fredericksburg and Falmouth” that was partly owned by William Wilson (
5Memorandum Books, 1808 (Jefferson Papers)
on the Rappahannock River about three miles southeast of present Remington