Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday the steamboats "Benjamin Franklin" (Capt.

E.S.

Bunker) and "President" (Capt.

R.S.

Bunker) left New York for those Rhode Island towns at five o'clock in the evening.
The Post Road to Boston of those days differed much from the Boston Post Road of the present; especially in its first stages going northward from New York.