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The '''Pequot Path''' ran about 69 miles (111 kilometers) near the mainland ocean shore from '''[[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence, Rhode Island]]''' to '''[[New London, Connecticut|New London, Connecticut]]''' (formerly Pequitt).<ref>William Davis Miller, ''Ancient Paths to Pequot'' (Providence: E.L. Freeman, 1936), 8. [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070269447;view=1up;seq=7 Hathi Trust Digital Library edition].</ref> At least one authority asserts the route also included the island community of Newport on Rhode Island.<ref>[http://qb.mindhenge.org/PostRoad.html On the Trail of Benjamin Franklin: The Lower Boston Post Road] (accessed 20 October 2014).</ref> All seem to agree the route was certainly extended into central Connecticut, but the earliest name of the trail in Connecticut beyond New London is unclear (before it was called the Boston Post Road). The Pequot Path route was part of the American Indian foot trails that were widened by European colonists into horse paths, and then wagon roads<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> | The '''Pequot Path''' ran about 69 miles (111 kilometers) near the mainland ocean shore from '''[[Providence, Rhode Island|Providence, Rhode Island]]''' to '''[[New London, Connecticut|New London, Connecticut]]''' (formerly Pequitt).<ref>William Davis Miller, ''Ancient Paths to Pequot'' (Providence: E.L. Freeman, 1936), 8. [http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015070269447;view=1up;seq=7 Hathi Trust Digital Library edition].</ref> At least one authority asserts the route also included the island community of Newport on Rhode Island.<ref>[http://qb.mindhenge.org/PostRoad.html On the Trail of Benjamin Franklin: The Lower Boston Post Road] (accessed 20 October 2014).</ref> All seem to agree the route was certainly extended into central Connecticut, but the earliest name of the trail in Connecticut beyond New London is unclear (before it was called the Boston Post Road). The Pequot Path route was part of the American Indian foot trails that were widened by European colonists into horse paths, and then wagon roads<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> | ||
'''Overlapping routes'''. The '''Pequot Path''' also became a leg on the '''''lower [[Boston Post Road]] | '''Overlapping routes'''. The '''Pequot Path''' also became a leg on the '''''lower [[Boston Post Road]] ''''' between Boston and New York City. In the 1760s and 1770s it was also part of the '''''[[King's Highway]] ''''' from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]] to [[New York City New York genealogy|New York City]] and all the way south to [[Charleston, South Carolina|Charleston]], South Carolina. | ||
'''Stagecoach service'''. In the 1760s stagecoaches began to traverse these roads carrying regular mail and passengers. Inns for stagecoach passengers and other travelers usually were established near the time of American Revolution. By 1800 an advertisement suggested stage service from Boston to Providence took only ten hours, but service from there to New York City took the rest of the week.<ref>Wood, 86-87.</ref> Nevertheless, travel between colonial towns was more often by sea than it was over land until just before the American Revolution.<ref>Wood, 25.</ref> | '''Stagecoach service'''. In the 1760s stagecoaches began to traverse these roads carrying regular mail and passengers. Inns for stagecoach passengers and other travelers usually were established near the time of American Revolution. By 1800 an advertisement suggested stage service from Boston to Providence took only ten hours, but service from there to New York City took the rest of the week.<ref>Wood, 86-87.</ref> Nevertheless, travel between colonial towns was more often by sea than it was over land until just before the American Revolution.<ref>Wood, 25.</ref> | ||
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:*[[King's Highway]], also known as the '''''[[Boston Post Road]]''''', goes from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], Massachusetts to [https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/New_York_City_New_York_genealogy New York City], and south to [[Charleston County, South Carolina|Charleston, South Carolina]]. The lower Boston Post Road (King's Highway) went from Boston to Providence (aka Old Roebuck Road), from Providence to New London (aka Pequot Path), and extended west from the southwest end of the Pequot Path at New London to New Haven and then to New York. | :*[[King's Highway]], also known as the '''''[[Boston Post Road]]''''', goes from [[Boston, Massachusetts|Boston]], Massachusetts to [https://familysearch.org/wiki/en/New_York_City_New_York_genealogy New York City], and south to [[Charleston County, South Carolina|Charleston, South Carolina]]. The lower Boston Post Road (King's Highway) went from Boston to Providence (aka Old Roebuck Road), from Providence to New London (aka Pequot Path), and extended west from the southwest end of the Pequot Path at New London to New Haven and then to New York. | ||
'''Modern parallels.''' The modern road that approximately matches the '''''Pequot Path | '''Modern parallels.''' The modern road that approximately matches the '''''Pequot Path ''''' from Providence, Rhode Island to New London, Connecticut is: | ||
:*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_1_in_Rhode_Island U.S. Route 1] Providence to Westerly in Rhode Island. | :*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Route_1_in_Rhode_Island U.S. Route 1] Providence to Westerly in Rhode Island. | ||
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