“I just got home and now I'm headed up to New York,” sings Daveed Diggs as Thomas Jefferson in the musical Hamilton. But a dash from Virginia to New York was not as simple as the dancing interpretation of Jefferson suggests. Eighteenth-century travel from colony to colony was dependent on the age and health of your horse, road conditions, weather, and more. At the swiftest, a trip from Virginia to New York by horse would have taken at least 10 days.