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 ''[[United States|United States]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go to]] [[United States Migration Internal|Migration]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png|go to]] [[US Migration Trails and Roads|Trails and Roads]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Rhode Island|Rhode Island]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]'' [[{{PAGENAME}}]]
-Did an ancestor travel the '''Pequot Path''' of Rhode Island? Learn about this settler migration route, its transportation history, and find related genealogy sources.
+Did an ancestor travel the '''Pequot Path''' of Rhode Island? Learn about this settler migration route, its transportation history, and find related genealogy sources.<br><br>
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+=== History  ===
-=== Background History  ===
+The '''Pequot Path''' was part of an American Indian trail that was widened by European colonists into a wagon road from Providence to Westerly in far southwest Rhode Island.<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> This path was part of a chain of shorter roads that formed the '''lower fork of the [[Boston Post Road]]''' (Boston-New York) with connecting legs from Boston to Providence ([[Old Roebuck Road]]) to Westerly (Pequot Path) to New Haven, Connecticut to New York City. The long route from Boston to New York to Charleston, South Carolina was also known as the [[King's Highway]] from the 1750s to about 1780.
-[[Image:{{PequotPathmap}}]]The '''Pequot Path''' was part of an American Indian trail that was widened by European colonists into a wagon road from Providence to Westerly in far southwest Rhode Island.<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> This path was part of a chain of shorter roads that formed the '''lower fork of the [[Boston Post Road]]''' (Boston-New York) with connecting legs from Boston to Providence ([[Old Roebuck Road]]) to Westerly (Pequot Path) to New Haven, Connecticut to New York City. The long route from Boston to New York to Charleston, South Carolina was also known as the [[King's Highway]] from the 1750s to about 1780.
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