. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . Gazette to the ef-fect that on Tuesdays a stage would run fromPhiladelphia to Trenton Ferry and thence onWednesdays to New Brunswick and the BlazingStar Tavern kept by Jacob Randolph, where pas-sengers and goods will reach New York thatnight. In 1759 a new route from Philadelphiato New York was opened from Daniel CoopersFerry (Camden) to Mount Holly, thence to Mid-dletown and Sandy Hook, and by boat to NewYork, with a branch line to Shrewsbury. In 1759a four-horse stage was projected between StirlingIron Works and the Lan
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . Gazette to the ef-fect that on Tuesdays a stage would run fromPhiladelphia to Trenton Ferry and thence onWednesdays to New Brunswick and the BlazingStar Tavern kept by Jacob Randolph, where pas-sengers and goods will reach New York thatnight. In 1759 a new route from Philadelphiato New York was opened from Daniel CoopersFerry (Camden) to Mount Holly, thence to Mid-dletown and Sandy Hook, and by boat to NewYork, with a branch line to Shrewsbury. In 1759a four-horse stage was projected between StirlingIron Works and the Landing. The growth of these stage waggon and stage boat routes is indicative of a develop-ment, not only of the colony itself, but of con-stantly increasing association between Philadel-phia and New York. Nor was this all. Philadel-phia was the center of the young settlements thatlined the frontier (the Allegheny Mountains) aswell as the rapidly growing territory which layalong the valley of the Schuylkill and its tributarystreams. Into Philadelphia came merchants from. AX KARLT TAVERN YARD. ONY AND AS A STATE 235 Delaware, Virginia, and Maryland, and even theCarolinas. New York drew from the valley ofthe Hudson and all the settled portions of NewEngland. There were signs of united action, not onlypolitical, but commercial, in the colonial sky. Thetwo cities were slowly becoming associated, andwere reaching out across New Jersey, throughthe Bordens, OBrien, and the Burlington Com-pany, for a better and more permanent acquaint-anceship. The pioneers in this primitive systemof transportation have been forgotten, but theirefforts and the efforts of others like them, in manyplaces through the colonies, were agencies inmaking national unity a possibility. By the opening of the Revolutionary War therewere several systems of roads in New reached southward from Coopers Ferry(Camden) to Gloucester, Woodbury, Raccoon,Penns Neck, Salem, Greenwich, Cohanzy, andthence by Maurice Ri
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