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 The '''Bay Road''' followed an old Indian trail about 60 miles (97 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 [[Boston, Massachusetts|'''Boston''']] to [[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> Boston was founded in 1630; New Bedford was established in 1652.<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Bedford,_Massachusetts New Bedford, Massachusetts] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia (accessed 30 October 2014).</ref> The Bay Road attracted European settlers along its route because it provided access to markets for settler goods and services.
+'''Overlapping routes'''. Part of the '''Bay Road''' followed the exact same route as a part of the '''''[[Old Roebuck Road]]&nbsp;''''' at least as far as Norwood. Moreover, that small portion of the Bay Road was also used as part of one of several main routes of the '''''lower [[Boston Post Road]]''''' from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] to [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]] to [[New York City New York genealogy|New York City]]. In the 1760s and 1770s that same small part of the Bay Road was also part of the '''''[[King's Highway]]&nbsp;''''' from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] to [[New York City New York genealogy|New York City]] and all the way south to [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], South Carolina.
-'''Overlapping routes'''. Part of the '''Bay Road''' followed the exact same route as a part of the '''''[[Old Roebuck Road]]&nbsp;''''' at least as far as Norwood. Moreover, a small portion of the Bay Road was also used as part of one of several main routes of the '''''lower [[Boston Post Road]]''''' from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] to [[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence]] to [[New York City New York genealogy|New York City]]. In the 1760s and 1770s a small part of the Bay Road was also part of the '''''[[King's Highway]]&nbsp;''''' from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] to [[New York City New York genealogy|New York City]] and all the way south to [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], South Carolina.
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