This map was produced by John Dudley George Brown to illustrate a survey of Scotchtown and its surroundings made by Benjamin and Fleming Bates around 1820. In addition to drawing the roads, rivers, and other landscape features surrounding the house, Brown also drew the house, outbuildings, and plantation in great detail. This image is extremely important because it is one of only a few documents that depict or describe how Scotchtown may have looked when Patrick Henry and his family lived here.