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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 edition. Excerpt: ...roads by which New Haven could be reached from Boston, there was but one road connecting New Haven with New York. As early as 1770, there were other roads leading out from Boston, --one to Plymouth on the Cape, another in a northerly direction to Portsmouth, N. H., passing through Medford, Woburn, Wilmington, Andover, Bradford, Haver-hill, Plastow, Kingston, Exeter, Stratham, Greenland to Portsmouth, sixty-six miles. There was also a road to Portsmouth, turning at Medford, going through Lynn, Salem, Ipswich, Newbury, Hampton, coming into the other road at Greenland. This road reached further on through York, Wells, Kennebunk, Scarborough, Falmouth, North Yarmouth, Brunswick, George Town, Pawnalboro, Fort Western, Fort Halifax and by passing on over the Great Carrying Place, Quebec was to be reached. This possibly was the route taken by Arnold and his command, including Col. Timothy Bigelow and other Worcester men, on their way to attempt the capture of Quebec, September, 1775. There was still another route to the northward, in 1770, called the Road to Number Four, crossing the Charlestown Ferry and passing through Cambridge, Lexington, Concord, Acton, Littleton, Groton, Shirley, Lunenburg, Fitchburg, Ashburnham, Winchendon, Swanzey, Keene, Walpole to Charlestown, N. H. (119 miles). These six or seven roads were the main avenues by land to the east, north, south and west from Boston, which it will be seen was the Hub then as it is now. No doubt the development of the country would have been far more rapid from the year 1770, had not the war-cry been sounded commanding the attention as well as the services of nearly every man, woman and child in the land. At last peace came, and after the shattered forces of the country could again swing into..
