ther, and it is
possible that the interest of contractors, as connected with the
transportation of passengers, sometimes induced them to reach Buffalo in
advance of their schedule time.

On the 3rd of March, 1823, a post-route was established "from Buffalo in
Erie to Olean in the County of Cattaraugus, passing through the towns of
Boston, Concord and Ellicottville."

On the 14th of July, 1824, the mail routes by which the Buffalo office
was supplied, and the service thereon, were as follows: Canandaigua to
Buffalo, three times a week; Niagara to Buffalo, three times a week;
Erie to Buffalo, twice a week; and Moscow to Buffalo, once a week.

From 1824 to 1828, the mail was generally carried from New York to
Albany by steamboats, six times a week, during the season of navigation,
and probably three times a week, by land, in winter; and the mail from
Buffalo to Albany was carried twice a week, by one line in three days
and four hours, and by the other in four days. The mails from Buffalo to
Youngstown and from Buffalo to Erie were carried each way three times a
week.

It is stated in the Buffalo Directory of 1828, that the number of mails
then arriving and departing weekly from the Buffalo post-office was
thirty-five. An advertisement by the late Bela D. Coe, Esq., states that
the Pilot mail-coach left Buffalo every evening, arrived at Geneva the
first day, Utica the second, and Albany the third; and that the
Diligence coach left Buffalo every morning at 8 o'clock, arrived at
Avon the first night, Auburn the second, Utica the third, and Albany the
fourth.

On the 15th of June, 1832, a post-route was established "from Buffalo,
Erie County, by Aurora, Wales, Holland, Sardinia, China, Fredonia,
Caneadea and Belfast to Angelica in Allegany County"; after which no
other post-routes, commencing or terminating at Buffalo, were
established prior to 1845, except that by the Act of July 7, 1838, all
the railroads then existing (in which the Buffalo & Niagara Falls
Railroad must be included), or thereafter to be completed in the United
States, were declared post-roads, and the Postmaster-General was thereby
authorized, under certain restrictions, to contract for carrying the
mails thereon.

As the last link in the chain of railroads from Albany to Buffalo was
completed early in 1843, there was then, or soon after, continuous mail
transportation by railroad from Boston, through Worcester, Springfield
and Albany to Buffalo. The