OLD ROADS AND COURSES OF TRAVEL IN EARLY TIMES
taken from Woodward, E.M., History of Burlington and Mercer Counties. pp. 53-58. CHAPTER IX. OLD ROADS AND COURSES OF TRAVEL IN EARLY TIMES — STEAMBOATS ON THE DELAWARE —COLONIAL POST-OFFICES OF BURLINGTON COUNTY. NEW JERSEY, lying between the great sea-ports of New York and Philadelphia, naturally became the great highway of communication, not only between these early villages, but between the New England and Southern colonies. Prior to the coming of the English, the Dutch communicated between their settlements at New Amsterdam and those on the Delaware by an Indian trail. A portion of this "old Indian path" can even now be traced with great accuracy, and vestiges of the inhabitants of the forest, their corn-mills, in bowlders, are still found upon it. The late Hon. George Sykes, in a communication to the author, says,— "The old Indian path from Burlington to Shrewsbury left the Old York road on the farm now owned (1865) by William H. Black, on the north side of