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=== Background History === | === Background History === | ||
[[Image:New England Migration Routes.png|right|400px|New England Migration Routes.png]] | [[Image:New England Migration Routes.png|right|400px|New England Migration Routes.png]]At least three routes in [[Massachusetts]] have been labelled the '''Bay Road''' including one more often called the [[Old Connnecticut Path]].<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Post_Road Boston Post Road] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia (accessed 16 October 2014).</ref> But this article is about the pathway from Boston to New Bedford.<br><br> | ||
Part of the '''Bay Road''' followed the exact same route as a part of the '''[[Old Roebuck Road]]''' at least as far as Norwood. Moreover, this section of the Bay Road was also used as one of several main routes of the '''[[King's Highway]]''' or '''[[Boston Post Road]]''' from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] to [[New York City New York genealogy|New York City]] and from there on to [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]]. | The '''Bay Road''' stretched about 62 miles (99 kilometers) from [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay Massachusetts Bay] to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buzzards_Bay Buzzard's Bay]. It went from the city of [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] in [[Suffolk County, Massachusetts|Suffolk County]] through [[Norfolk County, Massachusetts|Norfolk County]] into [[Bristol County, Massachusetts|Bristol County]] to the city of [[Taunton, Massachusetts|Taunton]], and thence to the city of [[New Bedford, Massachusetts|New Bedford]] in [[Massachusetts]].<ref name="HBG">''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America'', 9th ed. (Logan, Utah: Everton Pub., 1999), pages 531 and M-48. {{WorldCat|48077118|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FHL|740321|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27e 1999}}.</ref> | ||
Part of the '''Bay Road''' followed the exact same route as a part of the '''[[Old Roebuck Road]]''' at least as far as Norwood. Moreover, this section of the Bay Road was also used as one of several main routes of the '''[[King's Highway]]''' or '''[[Boston Post Road]]''' from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] to [[New York City New York genealogy|New York City]] and from there on to [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]]. | |||
=== Route === | === Route === | ||