Walking the Post Road

Square House Museum, also known as Madam Haviland’s Inn, visited by George Washington and many others in the late eighteenth century, Rye, New York.

“After dinner, through frequent light showers we proceed’d to the Tavern of a Mrs. Haviland at Rye; who keeps a very neat and decent Inn.”

George Washington, Diary, Thursday October 15, 1789.


“We stopped at one of the best taverns I have seen in America. It is kept by Mrs. Haviland.”

J.P. Brissot de Warville, New Travels in the United States of America, 1792.

Notes

  1. 1.George Washington, Diary, 20.

  2. 2.J.P. Brissot de Warville, New Travels in the United States of America, 89.

  3. 3.Manasseh Cutler, Letters, 225.

  4. 4.Charles W. Baird, Chronicle of a Border Town: The History of Rye, Westchester County, 1660-1870, Including White Plains and Harrison until 1788 (New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1871), 71.

  5. 5.Ibid., 159.

  6. 6.Cutler, 226.

  7. 7.Alexander Hamilton, Itinerarium, 171.

  8. 8.Brissot de Warville, 87-88.

  9. 9.Sarah Knight, Diary, 71.

  10. 10. James Birket, Some Cursory Remarks, 39.

Distance Walked in the Entry: 3.84  miles

Total Distance Walked in New York State:  6.69 miles

Total Distance Walked for this Project (from Boston):   320.3 miles

Distance Remaining to New York (Bowling Green):  27 miles