Table of Mileages, 30 September 1807
30 Sep. 1807-23 July 1808
Itinerary
from Monticello. Sep. 30. 07. | July 20-23 | ||
Mile | |||
river (middle) | 1.88 | 1.89 | |
mill | .72 | .71 | |
Edgehill gate | 1.18 | .80. to gate on river | |
Fredsbg road (+ an error) | .92 | .77 Edgehill | |
Rogers’s gate | .85 | ||
Watson’s road | 2.03 | ||
Meriwether’s gate | .62 | ||
Belvoir church | 1.92 | ||
Bentivoglio. | 2.73 | ||
Lindsay’s store | .82 | ||
Walker’s mill | 2.78 | ||
Gordon’s | 2.68 | 19.13 | 15.95 Gordon’s |
Montpelier road | 3.47 | 3.47 | 5.15 Bishop’s town |
Montpelier | 3.66 | ||
public road North | 1.38 | ||
Orange. C. H. | 3.75 | 8.79 | 4.18 Or. C. H. |
to the Rapidan. | 7.32 | ||
Downey’s ford | 2.10 | 9.40 Downey’s ford | |
leave river at | 3.72 | ||
Stevensbg (Zimerman’s) | 8.30 | 21.44 | |
Strode’s | 5.25 | ||
Herrings | .28 | 17.66 Herring’s | |
Norman’s ford (middle) | 4.25 | ||
Elk run church (tavern) | 9.85 | 19.63 | Elk r. ch. |
Dumfries road | 5.80 | ||
Cedar run | 3.12 | ||
Slate run church | 5.59 | 14.49 Slate r. ch. | |
Broad run | 1.76 | ||
Brown’s | 1.76 | 18.03 | |
Yates’s road | 2.72 | ||
Fauquier road | 1.15 | ||
Bull run | 1.04 | ||
Songster’s | 5.14 | 10.05 | 14.63 Songster’s |
Fairfax C. H | 4.92 | ||
Falls church. | 8.30 | 6.53 R. Fitzh’s | |
Wren’s | .35 | ||
Thomas’s x roads | .71 | 7.22 Thos. x roads | |
Geo. T. ferry | 5.67 | 5.65 Geo. T. ferry | |
President’s house | 1.55 | 21.50 | 1.56 Pres’s house |
the Odometer is made for a wheel of | 122.07 | ||
16.f. circumference; consequently | 4. | ||
330. resolns to a mile measured with the single Phaeton, the wheel of which | 118.04 | ||
is.16f ⅝I. in circumference. do regression . 330. revolns are 206¼ &[. . . .] mle or 17x—2¼I. more than a mile which is 1. mile in 307.2 and gives the true distance 118.04 + .384 = | 118.424 |
[Note near top in right margin: “many men many”
DLC: Papers of Thomas Jefferson.