Notes on Travel Distances Between the President’s House and Monticello, 30 June 1808
Sep. 1807-June 1808
1808. May | 1808. June | Sep. 07 | ||||
President’s house | Pr’s House | } | 7.95 | Pr’s House | ||
1.55 | ||||||
Geo. T. ferry | Geo. T. ferry | 5.67 | ||||
Thomas’s X roads | Thomas’s X roads | .71 | ||||
Wren’s | } | Wren’s | .35 | |||
Richd. Fitzhugh’s | 7.22 | 8.58 | Falls church | 8.30 | ||
1.59 | Fairfx C.H. | Fairfx C.H. | ||||
Lane’s | 4.92 | } | 5.03 | 4.92 | ||
Songster’s | Songster’s | Songster’s | ||||
5.16 | 5.16 | 5.14 | ||||
Bull run. yates’s | Bull run | Bull run | ||||
1.07 | 1.03 | 1.04 | ||||
Hooe’s fork | Hooe’s fork | Hooe’s fork | 1.15 | |||
(b)6.90 | 6.86 | Center road | 2.72 | |||
Ewell’s mill | Ewell’s mill | |||||
[. . .] | .74 | Brown’s | 1.76 | |||
7.34 | Broad run | 1.76 | ||||
Slate r. ch. | 5.59 | |||||
Greenwich | Greenwich | 6.46 | Cedar run | 3.15 | ||
10.58 | Brown’s road | 4.42 | Dumfries road | 5.80 | ||
Fauqr. C.H. | Fauqr. C.H. | 6.15 | Elk run ch. | |||
6.82 | 6.89 | |||||
Hedgeman | Hedgeman | 9.85 | ||||
2.90 | 2.91 | |||||
Jefferson | Jefferson | Norman’s ford | ||||
4.60 | 4.61 | 4.25 | ||||
Rappahanoc | Rappahanoc | Herring’s | .28 | |||
9.15 | 9.16 | Strode’s | 5.25 | |||
Culpep. C.H. | Culp. C.H. | Stevsbg [. . .] | ||||
12.55 | 12.33 | Rappidan | 8.30 | |||
(a) Robinson at isld. ford | Robinson isld ford | 3.72 | ||||
Rapidan | [. . .] | Rapidan | 5.15 | Downey’s ford | 2.10 | |
Orange C.H. | 5.84 | Orange C.H. | 3.35 | leave river | ||
10.33 | [. . .] | 4.17 | Orange C.H. | 7.32 | ||
(e) Gordon’s | [. . .] | 8.75 | Montplr road | 3.75 | ||
13.61 | [. . .] | Montpelier | 1.38 | |||
Rogers’s road | public road | 3.66 | ||||
Gordon’s | 3.47 (d) | |||||
3.60 | ||||||
14.43 | Walker’s mill | 2.78 | ||||
Edgehill | 1.95 | [. . .] | Lindsay’s store | .82 | ||
Bentivoglia | 2.73 | |||||
gate on the road | .7[. . .] | [. . .] | [. . .] | Belvoir ch. | 1.92 | |
Milton ferry | [. . .] | [. . .] | Meriwt’s gate | .62 | ||
Watson’s mill | 2.07 | |||||
Colle fork | 3[. . .] | [. . .] | Roger’s gate | .85 | ||
Beck’s gate | [.97] (e) | |||||
1[. . .] | [. . .] | [. . .] | Edgehill gate | 1.78 | ||
Thoro’fare gate | Shadwell mill | .72 | ||||
[. . .] | [. . .] | Damford mill | ||||
1.88 | ||||||
Monto. door | Monto. door | Monto. door |
(e) July 22. from Or. C.H. to Bp’s town 4.18 to Gordon’s 5.15 = 9.33
(d) probably an error of a mile in this or more
(c) an error by the machine failing to run some time probably .10 this Edgehill gate is not the one on the river
(b.) there enters into this 6.90 a small conjectural distance
(a) near ½ mile of this 5.52 is lost by going to this, instead of the common ford.
DLC: Papers of Thomas Jefferson.