The road mentioned as laid out in 1727 is undoublt'dly the old road which ran from the present Westchester Bridge to the old bridge next south of the I mill at West Farms. The road of 1729 is undoubtedly the i)resent highway leading to Fort Schuyler through Throgg's Neck, but we find it again laid out in 1737 in order to avoid some difficulties occasioned by Peter Baxter's fence. The present road from Westchester Bridge to Pelham Bridge was authorized as follows:

In 1X17, Hermann Le Roy, Thomas C. Taylor, William Edgar and their associates were incorporated as a turnpike company to make a turnpike road beginning at the causeway leading from the village of Westchester, at some point on the east side of the bridge over Westchester Creek, and to run from thence in the most convenient route to the bridge lately erected over the mouth of East Chester Creek and were to be known as the "Westchester and Pelham Turnpike Road Company."

The Boulevard running from Pelham Bridge to the bridge south of the West ^besti r village causeway is of recent origin, hut the road wliich runs from Westcheater village to the Bronx at the south end of the village of West Farms was originally known as the Westchester turnpike. The road known now as the East Chester road, extending from the Bleach to the East Chester line, and sometimes called the Boston

road, is a coniinuaiiou of the Coles road mentioned in the chapters on West Farms and Morrisania.