Thomas Jefferson Papers

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 I. 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

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