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No one would have bothered going to where Washington, DC is now during the Revolutionary War period except such persons as tax assessors and owners collecting rents from tenant farmers. The city did not exist then, although Georgetown did exist as a navigable port town.
On a decent cleared road, 40 miles by horseback was about max in one day. This was a rule of thumb for creating new counties' dimensions and locating a County Seat: one should be able to ride there, take care of business and return home all in one day.
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