Thomas Jefferson Papers

John Organ’s Survey Notes on Poplar Forest Roads, 28 November 1817

II. John Organ’s Survey Notes on Poplar Forest Roads

Coppy Courses and distances run the 28th Novr. 1817. for roads.
Begining at the house and Runing
1.   S 66 E. 100 po.
2. N. 81 E 12 po. to a branch
3. S 80 E 22 po.
4. S 51 E. 13 po.
5. S 74 E 42 po. to a fork. thence
6. S 64 E 20 po.
7. S 58 E 16 po.
8. S 75 E 18 po.
9. S 79 E 18 po.
10. S 75 E 16 po. to the Crossing of an old road. thence
11. S 83 E 17½ po.
12. N. 68 E 21 po. through a Small old field. thence
13. S 76 E 16 po.
14. N. 81 E 4 po. Cross a branch. thence
15. S 69 E 16½ po.
16. S 82 E 14½ po.
17. S 70½ E 13 po.
18. S 60 E 10 po.
19. S 87 E 23 po.
20. S 82 E 21 po.
21. S 77 E 13 po
22. S 69 E 25 po
23. S 65 E1 45 po2 to Thompsons Road thence3 John Thompson (Thomson)
24  S 69 E 26 po.
25  N. 84½ E 16 po. to Thompsons fence thence4 through the field
26. S 76 E 46 po.
27  S 80 E 19 po. to the fence—and 22 po. the first branch &. 32 po. the Second. thence
28  N. 88 E 20 po.
29. S 83 E 20 po to the Corner of a fence on the right, thence
30. S 85 E 18 po.
31. S 88 E 32 po.
32  S 70 E 20 po.
33  S 75½ E 22 po.
34  S 85 E 25 po.
35  S 18 E 35 po. to the fork turning to Lynchburg thence
36  S 5 W. 16 po.
37. S 18½ E 15½ po.
38  S 34 E 19 po.
39  S 4. E 26. po.
40  S 26 E 12 po.
41  S 45½ E 18 po.
42  S 69 E 19 po.
43  S 41 E 35 po. to the new london road & 9 po. to C.C. house road near Thompsons5
 Coppy Courses and distances from near Thompsons by the water lick and along Calleways road and to the western gate &C.
Begining in the road near Thompsons and Runing
44. S 50 W. passing Thompsons door at 20 po. and 86 po in all thc
45. S 32 W. 22 po.
46. S 68 W. 82 po.
47. S 40 W. 80 po. to Mitchels yard. thence
48. S 69 W. 26 po. to where we leave the New london road thence
49. N 60 W. 21 po to Calleways Road. thc along the Same
50. N 29 W. 8 po.
51. N 54 W. fork of Thompsons road at 16 po &. 36 po. in all thence
52. N 71 W. Crossing the land mark at 11 po. &. 46 po. in all
53. N 69 W. 92 po.
54. N 70 W. 184 po. to the Crossing of an old road.6
55. N 72 W. Cross an old road at 67 po. & 206 to your Corner Red oak and 350 po. in all on that Course. thence
56. N. 70 W. 40 po to the fork of the road, thc along the right hand fork
57. N 27 W. 13 po.
58. N 10 E 35 po.
59. N 15 W. 20 po.
60. N 7 W. 15 po.
61. N 19 E 22 po. to the western gate, thence
62. N 45 E 1807 po to the house

John Organ Survr

MS (ViU: TJP, TB [Thurlow-Berkeley] no. 1499); in Organ’s hand, with numbering from 1 to 62 in left margin added by TJ; endorsed by Organ: “Coppy Courses of Roads”; endorsed by TJ: “Majr Organ’s survey of roads from the Campbell C.H. road near Thompson’s to Poplar Forest.”

1. Superfluous caret here added by TJ but editorially omitted.

2. TJ here interlined “(crossing the turnpike at 35. po).”

3. TJ here added “= 516½ po. = 1.6 mi.”

4. Manuscript: “thenc.”

5. Above this word TJ wrote “

459.5 = 1.435
976 = 3.05
.” First page ends here.

6. TJ here canceled “thence” and added “at the turnpike.”

7. TJ underscored this amount and beneath it added “1358 po. = 4.24 mi.”

Index Entries

  • Callaway, Richard; and survey of Poplar Forest search
  • Campbell County, Va.; road to courthouse in search
  • Lynchburg, Va.; road to search
  • Mitchell, John (Bedford Co. landowner); and survey of Poplar Forest search
  • New London, Va.; road from search
  • Organ, John; and survey of Poplar Forest search
  • Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); roads search
  • Poplar Forest (TJ’s Bedford Co. estate); surveys of search
  • roads; at Poplar Forest search
  • roads; in Va. search
  • Thompson (Thomson), John (Campbell Co. landowner); and survey of Poplar Forest search
  • Virginia; roads in search

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Jefferson Papers
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John Organ’s Survey Notes on Poplar Forest Roads, 28 November 1817
Author
Organ, John
Date
28 November 1817

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“John Organ’s Survey Notes on Poplar Forest Roads, 28 November 1817,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Jefferson/03-12-02-0175-0003. [Original source: The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, vol. 12, 1 September 1817 to 21 April 1818, ed. J. Jefferson Looney. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014, pp. 212–213.]