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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 === | |||
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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Revision as of 08:29, 20 October 2014
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Did an ancestor travel the Pequot Path of Rhode Island? Learn about this settler migration route, its transportation history, and find related genealogy sources.
History[edit | edit source]
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.[1] 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.
External links[edit | edit source]
- On the Trail of Benjamin Franklin: The Lower Boston Post Road (accessed 17 October 2014).
- Boston Post Road in Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia (accessed 17 October 2014).
Sources[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Frederic J. Wood, The Turnpikes of New England and the Evolution of the Same Through England, Virginia, and Maryland (Boston: Marshall Jones, 1919), 25. Internet Archive version online.