Post rider receipt

Edmund Andros, British, 1637 - 1714 · March 19, 1687

During the late 1600s, ideas for East Coast inter-colonial postal service began to circulate. In 1684 New York's Governor Dongan proposed the most ambitious idea yet - a chain of post houses from Nova Scotia to the Carolinas. It was never fully realized because of the small volume of mail; only one route was created between New York and Boston. But the idea was also never abandoned. Governor Andros of Massachusetts was interested in such a service.