Notes on Distances between Monticello and Montpellier, [ca. 25 September 1809]

Notes on Distances between Monticello and Montpellier

[ca. 25 Sept. 1809]

1809. Sep. 22.1	m
Montico to Gordon’s	20.
Montpelier road	5.
Montpelier	3.75
Sep. 24.
Gordon’s to Lindsay’s	3.17
Sep. 25.
Lindsay’s to pub. road	2.38
to the store	2.02

MS (DLC: TJ Papers, 233:41691); entirely in TJ’s hand; undated; written on a small scrap.

On his way to or from Montpellier, TJ often stayed at his friend Reuben lindsay’s home in northeastern Albemarle County (Woods, Albemarle description begins Edgar Woods, Albemarle County in Virginia, 1901, repr. 1991 description ends , 257; MB description begins James A. Bear Jr. and Lucia C. Stanton, eds., Jefferson’s Memorandum Books: Accounts, with Legal Records and Miscellany, 1767–1826, 1997, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Second Series description ends ).

1. TJ here canceled “23. 24. 25.”

Index Entries

Gordon’s Tavern (Gordonsville) search
Jefferson, Thomas; Travels; notes on distances between Monticello and Montpellier search
Jefferson, Thomas; Writings; Notes on Distances between Monticello and Montpellier search
Lindsay, Reuben; home of on route to Montpellier search
Monticello (TJ’s estate); distance from Montpellier search
Montpellier (Montpelier; J. Madison’s Orange Co. estate); distance from Monticello search

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Source Project: Jefferson Papers
Title: Notes on Distances between Monticello and Montpellier, [ca. 25 September 1809]
Author: Jefferson, Thomas
Date: 25 September 1809

Reference

Cite as: “Notes on Distances between Monticello and Montpellier, [ca. 25 September 1809],” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-01-02-0436. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 1, 4 March 1809 to 15 November 1809, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, pp. 562–563.]