Note 1 — Book D
Reading edition
The origin of the name of Jackson’s Hermitage estate is obscure. Thomas Hart Benton, in his Thirty Years’ View, Vol. I, page 736, says: “He ... lived on a superb estate of some thousand acres, twelve miles from Nashville, then hardly known by its subsequent famous name of the Hermitage—name chosen for its perfect accord with his feelings; for he had then actually withdrawn from the stage of public life....”