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 :*'''[[Westerly, Rhode Island|Westerly]]'''
-'''Connecting Routes''' The '''''Pequot Path''''' connected with other migration routes:
+'''Connecting Routes'''. The '''''Pequot Path''''' connected with other migration routes:
-:*[[Old Roebuck Road]] goes from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] to [[Providence, Rhode Island]] (Narragansett Bay).
+:*The [[Old Roebuck Road]] from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] to [[Providence, Rhode Island]] connects with the Pequot Path on the northest end in Providence.
-:*[[King's Highway]] also known as the Boston Post Road goes from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], Massachusetts to New York City, and south to [[Charleston County, South Carolina|Charleston, South Carolina]] with extensions on each end. In Massachusetts and Connecticut there were at least three competing routes for the Boston Post Road. Parts were laid out 1650 to 1735; its length remained in heavy use through 1783, and some parts are used to this day. The lower Boston Post Road went from Boston to Providence (aka Old Roebuck Road), from Providence to Westerly (aka Pequot Path), and from Westerly to New Haven and then New York.
+:*[[King's Highway]], also known as the Boston Post Road, goes from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], Massachusetts to New York City, and south to [[Charleston County, South Carolina|Charleston, South Carolina]]. The lower Boston Post Road went from Boston to Providence (aka Old Roebuck Road), from Providence to Westerly (aka Pequot Path), and extended west from the southwest end of the Pequot Path at Westerly to New Haven and then to New York.
+'''Modern parallels.''' The modern roads that roughly match the Pequot Path from Providence to Westerly are:
-'''Modern parallels.''' The modern roads that roughly match the Pequot Path from Providence to Weserly are:
 === Settlers and Records  ===