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look up the Boston Post RoadThe response to my point about sea trade was that overland was significantly safer.
And it’s funny you would mention trade from Boston to New York when the vast majority of trade between those points would be by ship. Until you had trains, no one in their right mind would walk between those points. You certainly wouldn’t have significant movement of trade goods going overland between Bodtonand New York until after railroads.
the Old Conneticut Road section was in use in 1630 and was based on an older Native American trail connecting the Massachusetts Bay to the Conneticut Valley. The Road then extended via Hartford and New Haven to NYC.
it was the major postal route linking New England towns and become US Highway 1
heres a 1962 map showing the old postal routes in red
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