How did people travel in 1770?

Answer 1

By Ships commoner colonial craft in use were shallops, sloops, and schooners.For ordinary purposes - on shallow inland watercourses -the colonists used various kinds of flatboats,

For short distances they used dingies, yawls, and longboats as well as canoes fashioned in many sizes and shapes - either dugouts or light craft made of cedar and cypress, propelled by paddles or oars.

Flat-bottomed "fall-boats " were used for freighting and passenger travel on the Connecticut River above Hartford,

All the large ports had rowboats and barges.

As population increased and settlement was extended farther and farther westward from the region of coastwise navigation to areas not easily reached even from the rivers, the colonists were forced to depend more and more upon travel by land. In the early days riding on horseback was the chief mode of traveling on land, but in the seventeenth century wheeled vehicles appeared in Virginia and to a limited extent in the North, though for the purpose of carting rather than for driving.

Four-wheeled chaises drawn by two horses could be transformed into one-horse chairs by taking off the front wheels, but coaches and chariots were generally drawn by four, six, and even eight horses. Chaises, curricles, and phaetons were the rule in the North, and coaches and chariots in Virginia and South Carolina; yet chairs and chaises were common enough in the South.