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Did an ancestor travel the '''Bay Road''' of Massachusetts? Learn about this settler migration route, its transportation history, and find related genealogy sources. | Did an ancestor travel the '''Bay Road''' of Massachusetts? Learn about this settler migration route, its transportation history, and find related genealogy sources. | ||
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=== Background History === | === Background History === | ||
At least three routes in [[Massachusetts]] have been labelled the '''Bay Road''': (A) the [[Old Connecticut Path]] from Boston to Hartford,<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Post_Road Boston Post Road] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia (accessed 16 October 2014).</ref> (B) the [[Old Roebuck Road]] from Boston to Providence, and (C) the route from Boston to New Bedford.<ref>Frederic J. Wood, ''The Turnpikes of New England and the Evolution of the Same Through England, Virginia, and Maryland'' (Boston: Marshall Jones, 1919), 25. [https://archive.org/details/turnpikesofnewen00woodrich Internet Archive version online].</ref> But this article is only about the later pathway from Boston to New Bedford.<br><br> | |||
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> | 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 lower '''[[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]]. | 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 lower '''[[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]]. | ||
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=== External links === | === External links === | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Road_%28Bristol_County,_Massachusetts%29 Bay Road (Bristol County, Massachusetts)] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia '' (accessed 15 October 2014). | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bay_Road_%28Bristol_County,_Massachusetts%29 Bay Road (Bristol County, Massachusetts)] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia '' (accessed 15 October 2014). | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Post_Road Boston Post Road] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 17 October 2014). | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Post_Road Boston Post Road] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 17 October 2014). | ||