In 1704 we have from jMadam Knight's journal an account of her trip from Boston to New York herself, and the postman on horseback.*

In 1703 Lord Cornbury, sending home for approval several bills passed by the Assembly, speaks of one as " An Act of absolute necessity, for without it the Post to Boston and Philadelphia will be lost."*

1 X. Y. Col. MSS., vol. iii. p. r,S2. 3 N. Y. Col. JISS., vol. iv. p. 111.3.

2 N. Y. Col. MSS., vol. iv. p. 317. « X. Y. Col. MSS., vol. iv. p. 1131. 6 X. Y. Col. MSS., vol. iv. p. 11C8.

In 1708, Lord Cornbury states that " From Bostou there is a Post by which we can hear once a week in .summer, and once a fortnight in winter.""

In the New York Gdzette of December 9, 1734, is the following advertisement :

" On Tuesday the Tenth instant, at Nine O'clock iu the Fore-noon, the Boston and Philadelphia Posts set out from Xew York to perform

tlieir stages once a fort nited\iring the 3 Winter niuntiis and are to set out at 9 o'clock on Tuesday Mornings. Oentlemon and Merchant'* are desired to liring their Letters in time. X. B. -- This Oa/ette will also come forth on Tuesday inorningR during that time." '

With little-variation this through mail arrangement, from which doubtless the inhabitants of Westchester County derived the same advantages a.s others on the route, continued on for twenty years longer,, when, Benjamin Franklin having^ been made Post-, master-General for the colonies, entered upon office with determination to increase the ])ostal facilities.* The weekly mail was soon started, through the winter months as well as summer, and letters leaving Philadelphia on Monday morning reached Boston by Saturday night. We have the names of two of the old mail- carriers, whose faces must have been very familiar and welcome at the various