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60. As quoted in John B. Ellis, The Sights and
Secrets of the National Capital, p. 42.
61. See Reps, Monumental Washington, Chaps.
3-7 and sources cited therein for the background of
this plan, its recommendations, and its implementa-
tion.
CHAPTER XI.
1. A nearly identical manuscript plan, although not
so legible, is in the collection of the Virginia State
Library. It is entitled "A Plan of Richmond." On the
reverse is the following note: "The plan of Richmond
Town laid off by Colo. Wm. Mayo & James Wood
in the year 1736 February ye 12." The Virginia State
Library collection also includes a manuscript plan of
Richmond drawn in 1787 that closely resembles that
in figure 185. It bears the following title: "An exact
copy of a plan of the town of Richmond which ap-
pears to be taken in the lifetime of William Byrd
the elder. . . ." On the reverse is this note: "We do
certify that the within is a true copy of the plan
referred to in Edmd. Pendleton Esqr's disposition.
Robt. Boyd. A Roberts 5 Nov 1787."
2. As quoted in Alexander Wilbourne Weddell,
Richmond Virginia in Old Prints, 1737-1887, p. 3.
3. William Waller Hening, ed., The Statutes at
Large . . . of Virginia, 5: 191.
4. Ibid., 6: 281-82.
5. A facsimile of the advertisement appears in Wed-
dell, Richmond, p. 9.
6. Hening, Statutes, 8: 421-24.
7. Weddell, Richmond, p. 7.
8. For the details of these events, the changes in
the bill during committee stages and in the assembly,
and for a comparison of the features of the 1779
legislation with Jefferson's bill in 1776, see the editorial
note in Julian P. Boyd, ed., The Papers of Thomas
Jefferson (Princeton, 1950), 2: 271-72.
9. Hening, Statutes, 10: 86.
10. Ibid., 317-18.
n. Weddell, Richmond, pp. 22-23. See also Samuel
Mordecai, Richmond in By-Gone Days (Richmond,
1860), pp. 54-55.
12. This engraving, which has an appearance of
accuracy, may be misleading. It was prepared from a
manuscript map drawn shortly after Richmond was
occupied by British troops for one day. The engraving
is a faithful copy of the manuscript, which is among
the Simcoe Papers in the collection of Colonial Wil-
liamsburg. That collection, however, also includes the
field sketch from which the manuscript map was pre-
pared. The sketch shows streets and topographic
features but no buildings. Buildings may have been
added by the cartographer from verbal descriptions
or may simply have been drawn arbitrarily to provide
a diagramatic representation of the town.
13. Other directors were Archibald Gary, Robert
Carter Nicholas, Richard Adams, Edmund Randolph,
Turner Southall, Robert Goode, James Buchanan, and
Samuel Du-Vall.
14. In his great work on Jefferson's architectural
drawings Fiske Kimball originally assigned a date of
1782-1785 to this drawing on the basis of the paper
used. See his Thomas Jefferson, Architect, p. 139.
His later studies led him to revise this on the basis
of other evidence and to conclude that it "must have
been drawn not later than the spring of 1780." Fiske
Kimball, "Jefferson and the Public Buildings of Vir-
ginia. II. Richmond, 1779-1780." Huntington Library
Quarterly 12: (1949): 305.
15. On the Jefferson plan reproduced in figure 189
and his other drawings of the time the numbers as-
signed to the north-south streets are each one higher
than those finally adopted and still used today. Thus,
the blocks as shown on his drawing were bounded by
streets to which he gave the numbers 10 and 13.
16. A reproduction of this plan from the manuscript
in the Coolidge Collection of the Massachusetts His-
torical Society appears in Kimball, Thomas Jefferson,
Architect, figure 103.
17. As quoted from the text on the reverse of the
drawing in Kimball, "Jefferson and the Public Buildings
of Virginia," p. 305.
18. Jefferson was informed of this action in Paris by
James Buchanan and William Hay in a letter from
Richmond dated March 20, 1785. Boyd, Papers of
Thomas Jefferson, 8: 48-49.
19. Thomas Jefferson to James Madison, Paris, Sep-
tember 20, 1785, in ibid., 534-35.
20. This model has survived and may be seen in the
Capitol. Jefferson had already sent it to Richmond
when he received a reassuring note from two of the
directors, James Buchanan and William Hay, on Janu-
ary 19, 1786, that his design would be followed if pos-
sible. See their letter dated from Richmond, October
18, 1785, in ibid., 648.
21. "Journal of William Loughton Smith, 1790-
1791," Massachusetts Historical Society, Proceedings
(1917-1918) 51: 65-66.
22. John Tyler, "Richmond and its Memories," an
address delivered at the Richmond Mechanics Institute
in November, 1858, as quoted in Weddell, Richmond,
P-3i-
23. Latrobe's plan was prepared to show the location
of a proposed theatre, which he designed to replace the
one burned on January 23, 1798. Its site is shown in
the upper right portion of the plan. A brief account of
this project, a reproduction of figure 193 in color, and
views and plans of other buildings in Richmond de-
signed by Latrobe and Robert Mills can be found in
"An Architect Looks at Richmond," Virginia Cavalcade
16 (1967): 22-29.
24. The small building immediately to the right of
the Capitol in figure 196 is the governor's residence.
25. For a description of Godefroy's proposals and an
account of the buildings he designed in Richmond see
Robert L. Alexander, "Maximilian Godefroy in Vir-
ginia : A French Interlude in Richmond's Architecture,"
Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 69:
(1961): 418-31.
26. Mary Wingfield Scott and Louise F. Catterall,
Virginia's Capitol Square: Its Buildings & Its Monu-
ments, pp. 5-6.
27. These are summarized in ibid., pp. 6-7, 11-13,
34-
28. Archives of Maryland, 36: 315. For the progress
of the bill introduced shortly thereafter see 331, 334,
35i, 388, 396, 397, 411, 415, 418, 425, 428, and 429.
The text of the act as passed is given on 464-66.
29. Ibid., 464-66. This was not the first town in
Maryland to be given this distinguished name. The
Herrman Map, drawn in 1670 and published three
years later, shows a settlement with this name at the
mouth of Bush River, about halfway between the pres-
ent Baltimore and the mouth of the Susquehanna. It is
doubtful if this town ever was developed, although its
location appeared on several subsequent maps, including
those of the early eighteenth century by John Senex
and J. B. Homann. Even the detailed map of Virginia
and Maryland prepared in 1751 by Joshua Fry and
Peter Jefferson showed the old Baltimore Town and
not the new. For a review of the use of Baltimore as a
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