The Origins of the American Stagecoach Excerpt (more at website, below) The first stagecoach in the American colonies was owned by Jonathan Wardwell of Boston. His coach first made the trip from Boston to Providence, Rhode Island, on May 13, 1718, and in doing so began a system of travel which would endure for nearly 200 years. Following Wardwell's example, stagecoaches and wagons began to travel regularly throughout the East. The individual credited with instituting long-distance stage travel was another New Englander named Levi Pease. He began a stagecoach run along the upper Boston Post Road after the American Revolution in 1784. This stagecoach traveled from Boston through Worcester, Springfield, and Hartford to New York. http://www.imh.org/imh/kyhpl4a.html#xtocid38841