The price to Passengers will be 4 d New York or 3 d lawful Money per Mile and Baggage at a reasonable lute.

" Gentlemen and Ladies who choose to encourage this useful, new and expensive LTndertaking, may depend upon good Usage, and that the Coach will always put up at Houses on the Road where the best Entertainment is provided. . . . If ou Trial the Subscribers find Encouragement they will perform the Stage once a Week, only altering the Day of setting out from New York and Boston to Thursday instead of Jlonday Morning.

" Jonathan and Nicholas Bbown."

As stages had been running for some years before this from New York to Philadelphia it appears hardly possible that communication eastward from New should be established so much later. However, very soon two and three trijjs were made every week between the two cities.' And next a stage for Westchester County, going as far as Rye, was started, with, however, the very strange selection of six o'clock in the evening for the return trip on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

« Weekly Pott Boy, March 23, 1747. 5 Weekly Post Boy, January 19, 1747. <• Frank's New York Directoiy, 1787.

THE COLONIAL PERIOD.

It would seem that in 178o the first stages between New York and Albany through this county began their trips. The stages were drawn by four horses, and the charge was four pence a mile.'

Philadelphia STAGE-WAGGON, and New-York STAGE BOAT performs their Stages twice a Week.