This calculation of distances with rating of inns where Madison and TJ lodged or dined is extracted from the Account Book (NN), where it was entered at 20 June 1791 after TJ arrived back in Philadelphia. It bears the caption “The stages and distances of my journey.”

TJ did not begin to rate the inns and taverns along the way until he had joined Madison in New York and ceased to do so the day before they parted. The highest ratings, understandably, were given to those establishments in the well-settled parts of the Hudson and Connecticut valleys. Although Pierpont Edwards had said that the travellers grumbled at the “Eatables” and found nothing good enough for them (see Editorial Note), Connecticut inns with one exception were given TJ’s top rating. Some indication of his criteria for the three categories may perhaps be found in the inn where he and Madison stopped at Ticonderoga, located on the lake shore near Fort Ticonderoga in a stone building that had been known as “The King’s Store.” This inn was operated by the wife of Charles Hay (brother of Udny Hay, who had been deputy quartermaster at Ticonderoga during the Revolution). Mrs. Hay was a native of Quebec and she had operated an inn there. When Isaac Weld stopped at Mrs. Hay’s Ticonderoga establishment only a few years after TJ and Madison were there, he was greatly surprised and pleased with both the service and the food, attributing this to her being a native of French Canada (Isaac Weld, Travels, i [New York, 1799], 293). TJ, perhaps judging Mrs. Hay’s cuisine by his own French standards, rated her place only as “middling.”