Show early pot post riders rider I 1 on august SO 30 1770 1776 hardly more than A month after the adoption of the declaration of oe independence the continental con congress ress passed a resolution providing I 1 in n part that the corn com muni cation ot of intelligence intel lf gence with frequency and despatch from one part to another ot of this extensive continent la Is essentially requisite to its safety that therefore there shall be employed on the several post roads it a rider for every 25 or 30 miles whose business it shall be to proceed immediately through his stage three times each week setting out immediately on receipt of tile the mall mail and traveling with ith the same by night and by day without stopping until he ili shall have dellyer eil it to the next rider |