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Did an ancestor travel the '''Coast Path''' of Massachusetts? Learn about this settler migration route, its transportation history, and find related genealogy sources. | Did an ancestor travel the '''Coast Path''' of Massachusetts? Learn about this settler migration route, its transportation history, and find related genealogy sources. | ||
[[Image:{{CoastPathmap}}]]The '''Coast Path''' was a 45 mile (72 kilometer) migration route between Plymouth and Boston near the shore of 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)}}; {{ | [[Image:{{CoastPathmap}}]]The '''Coast Path''' was a 45 mile (72 kilometer) migration route between Plymouth and Boston near the shore of 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)}}; {{FSC|740321|item|disp=FS Library Book 973 D27e 1999}}.</ref> <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><br><br> | ||
=== Background History === | === Background History === | ||
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The Coast Path passed northwest to southeast through Suffolk, Norfolk, and Plymouth counties: | The Coast Path passed northwest to southeast through Suffolk, Norfolk, and Plymouth counties: | ||
'''[[Suffolk County, Massachusetts|Suffolk County]]''' | '''[[Suffolk County, Massachusetts Genealogy|Suffolk County]]''' | ||
:*[[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] (1630<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston Boston] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 14 October 2014).</ref>) | :*[[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] (1630<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston Boston] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 14 October 2014).</ref>) | ||
:*[[Dorchester, Massachusetts|Dorchester]] (1630<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorchester,_Boston Dorchester, Boston] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 14 October 2014).</ref>) | :*[[Dorchester, Massachusetts|Dorchester]] (1630<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorchester,_Boston Dorchester, Boston] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 14 October 2014).</ref>) | ||
'''[[Norfolk County, Massachusetts|Norfolk County]]''' | '''[[Norfolk County, Massachusetts Genealogy|Norfolk County]]''' | ||
:*[[Milton, Massachusetts|Milton]] (settled 1640<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton,_Massachusetts Milton, Massachusetts] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 14 October 2014).</ref>) | :*[[Milton, Massachusetts|Milton]] (settled 1640<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milton,_Massachusetts Milton, Massachusetts] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 14 October 2014).</ref>) | ||
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:*[[Cohasset, Massachusetts|Cohasset]] (east side of Hingham)(settled 1670<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohasset,_Massachusetts Cohasset, Massachusetts] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 14 October 2014).</ref>) | :*[[Cohasset, Massachusetts|Cohasset]] (east side of Hingham)(settled 1670<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohasset,_Massachusetts Cohasset, Massachusetts] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 14 October 2014).</ref>) | ||
'''[[Plymouth County, Massachusetts|Plymouth County]]''' | '''[[Plymouth County, Massachusetts Genealogy|Plymouth County]]''' | ||
:*[[Hingham, Massachusetts|Hingham]] (settled 1633<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hingham,_Massachusetts Hingham, Massachusetts] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 14 October 2014).</ref>) | :*[[Hingham, Massachusetts|Hingham]] (settled 1633<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hingham,_Massachusetts Hingham, Massachusetts] in ''Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia'' (accessed 14 October 2014).</ref>) | ||
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The pathway from from Plymouth to Boston near the Atlantic Ocean shore was used by European settlers and traders by 1630, if not earlier. A few scattered settlers from Plymouth may have settled along the route in the decade following 1621. More concentrated European settlements along the route began after Boston was settled about 1630. There are few records mentioning specific Coast Path travelers. Letters mention that Governor Winthrop traveled the route for two days in 1631 to meet with Governor Bradford. On that trip Winthrop was carried across the streams on the backs of Indians.<ref>Rothery, 5.</ref> Also, anyone who settled near the Coast Path during the 1600s likely used the Coast Path or the ocean to reach their new home, or to reach marketplaces in Boston and Plymouth. For records of the earliest settlers (and Coast Path travelers), see resources such as: | The pathway from from Plymouth to Boston near the Atlantic Ocean shore was used by European settlers and traders by 1630, if not earlier. A few scattered settlers from Plymouth may have settled along the route in the decade following 1621. More concentrated European settlements along the route began after Boston was settled about 1630. There are few records mentioning specific Coast Path travelers. Letters mention that Governor Winthrop traveled the route for two days in 1631 to meet with Governor Bradford. On that trip Winthrop was carried across the streams on the backs of Indians.<ref>Rothery, 5.</ref> Also, anyone who settled near the Coast Path during the 1600s likely used the Coast Path or the ocean to reach their new home, or to reach marketplaces in Boston and Plymouth. For records of the earliest settlers (and Coast Path travelers), see resources such as: | ||
*Lucy Mary Kellogg, et. al., ''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620'', 23+ vols. (Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975- ). {{WorldCat|2168141|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{ | *Lucy Mary Kellogg, et. al., ''Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Descendants of the Pilgrims Who Landed at Plymouth, Mass., December 1620'', 23+ vols. (Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1975- ). {{WorldCat|2168141|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FSC|86888|item|disp=FS Library Book 974.4 D2mf}}. | ||
*Robert Charles Anderson, ''The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633'', 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c1995). {{WorldCat|33083117|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{ | *Robert Charles Anderson, ''The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633'', 3 vols. (Boston, Massachusetts: New England Historic Genealogical Society, c1995). {{WorldCat|33083117|item|disp=At various libraries (WorldCat)}}; {{FSC|22717|item|disp=FS Library Book 974 W2a}}. | ||
*[https://www.themayflowersociety.org/ General Society of Mayflower Descendants] | *[https://www.themayflowersociety.org/ General Society of Mayflower Descendants] | ||
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{{Massachusetts|Massachusetts}} | {{Massachusetts|Massachusetts}} | ||
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