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The '''Minsi Path''', also known in part as the '''''Bethlehem Pike''''', ran about 187 miles (301 kilometers) from '''[[Kingston, New York]]''' to '''[[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]'''.<ref name="HBG">''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed.'' (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 850-51. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50140092 WorldCat entry]; {{FHL|1049485|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27e 2002}}.</ref> The Ancient Indian trail was named after the Minsi Indians. Pioneers used this route by 1766 to go from New England and New York to Pennsylvania, and vise versa. The '''''Minsi Path ''''' was a pioneer connection from the [[Ulster and Delaware Turnpike]] in New York to the [[Great Valley Road]] in Pennsylvania. | The '''Minsi Path''', also known in part as the '''''Bethlehem Pike''''', ran about 187 miles (301 kilometers) from '''[[Kingston, New York]]''' to '''[[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]]'''.<ref name="HBG">''Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed.'' (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), 850-51. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50140092 WorldCat entry]; {{FHL|1049485|item|disp=FHL Book 973 D27e 2002}}.</ref> The Ancient Indian trail was named after the Minsi Indians. Pioneers used this route by 1766 to go from New England and New York to Pennsylvania, and vise versa. The '''''Minsi Path ''''' was a pioneer connection from the [[Ulster and Delaware Turnpike]] in New York to the [[Great Valley Road]] in Pennsylvania. | ||
[[Image:Lehigh and Lackawanna Paths and Minsi Path map.png|center| | [[Image:Lehigh and Lackawanna Paths and Minsi Path map.png|center|638px|Lehigh and Lackawanna Paths and Minsi Path map.png]] | ||
This is one of the main routes connecting New England and New York to Pennsylvania and the southern United States. An alternate route to the southern United States was the [[King's Highway]]. | <br>This is one of the main routes connecting New England and New York to Pennsylvania and the southern United States. An alternate route to the southern United States was the [[King's Highway]]. | ||
'''Pre-turnpike era.''' New England residents gradually began moving into central New York on foot or horseback by 1753. In 1790 the opening of the Military Tract in modern Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, and Seneca counties began attracting Revolutionary War veterans, their families, and other New Englanders and Pennsylvanians into central New York. In 1792 a mail route (and probably a stage line) was established on the Catskill Road.<ref>Almyra E. Morgan, ''The Catskill Turnpike: a Wilderness Path'' (Ithaca, NY : DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, 1971), 2-3. Tompkins County Public Library [http://tcpl.org/local-history/documents/nys-cny/Catskill_Turnpike.pdf digital pdf copy]; {{WorldCat|63600251|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}.</ref> The Minsi Path route was already a pioneer pathway, and probably was a wagon road before that mail service was started just to the north on the Catskill Road. | '''Pre-turnpike era.''' New England residents gradually began moving into central New York on foot or horseback by 1753. In 1790 the opening of the Military Tract in modern Cayuga, Cortland, Onondaga, and Seneca counties began attracting Revolutionary War veterans, their families, and other New Englanders and Pennsylvanians into central New York. In 1792 a mail route (and probably a stage line) was established on the Catskill Road.<ref>Almyra E. Morgan, ''The Catskill Turnpike: a Wilderness Path'' (Ithaca, NY : DeWitt Historical Society of Tompkins County, 1971), 2-3. Tompkins County Public Library [http://tcpl.org/local-history/documents/nys-cny/Catskill_Turnpike.pdf digital pdf copy]; {{WorldCat|63600251|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}.</ref> The Minsi Path route was already a pioneer pathway, and probably was a wagon road before that mail service was started just to the north on the Catskill Road. | ||