1Circular from Thomas Jefferson to Joseph Coleman and Other Road Viewers, 1 October 1817 (Jefferson Papers)
Having petitioned the court of Albemarle to change the public road from Charlottesville to the Chapel branch , a little below the Shadwell mills , so as to run it along the river side instead of it’s crossing the mountain , and there being opposition to this in the neighborhood the court has thought it best to name as viewers persons at a distance feeling no bias or interest but the common and...