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Responding rapidly to a request by the Rappahannock County Court to alter the bounds of the prison. Commissioners Joseph Nicklin, John P. Ambler and Robert M. Heteriek submitted, the next day, their plan for altering the prison bounds set up by the commissioners in 1833.
The alteration of the bounds was requested by the court w hen the jail was moved from its previous site in the home now ow ned by Mrs. Mattie Ball Fletcher to its present location.
By “Prison Bounds” the commissioners meant the route that the prisoners (more likely one prisoner) were to march each day in accord with the state lawstipulating a fitting amount of fresh air and exercise for those confined.
Leaving nothing to chance or to the discretion of the jailer, the commissioners not only gave the route’s description in great detail, they drew a maip of the town of Washington w-ith the march route traced in red ink and recorded it permanently in one of the earliest county deed books. This drawing provides
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