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[[Image:New England Migration Routes.png|right|400px|New England Migration Routes.png]]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 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]] connecting 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:New England Migration Routes.png|right|400px|New England Migration Routes.png]]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 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]] connecting 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. | ||
=== External links === | |||
*[http://qb.mindhenge.org/PostRoad.html On the Trail of Benjamin Franklin: The Lower Boston Post Road] | |||
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{{Rhode Island|Rhode Island}} | {{Rhode Island|Rhode Island}} | ||
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