From "The Green County, A History" by Field Horne-1994, Written for the Greene County Historical Society and published by Black Dome Press, Hensonville, New York (ISBN 1-883789-02-08) the following was extracted regarding building turnpike building:
"The Susquehanna Turnpike's success encouraged the building of others, with financial backing from the other river towns which desired a share of the shipping, or even from mountain towns seeking to break their isolation. The Windham and Durham Turnpike was conceived in 1800, and the Windham Turnpike in 1808; both were tributary to the Susquehanna. From Athens the Schoharie Turnpike ran to Freehold, Oak Hill and beyond, begun in 1802. Coxsackie was linked with the Susquehanna Turnpike via Greenville by the Coxsackie Turnpike, begun in 1805. The following year a charter authorized the New Baltimore and Rensselaerville Turnpike. The company advertised for laborers in June 1807:
"Wanted at New Baltimore, 20 miles above Catskill, by the subscriber, 10 or 15 sworn TURNPIKERS to work on the Baltimore and Rensselaer [sic] Turnpike, to whom good wages will be given. No Dutchman need apply unless he is pretty well Yankeyfied; and no Irishman unless he can demolish a quart of Rum per day.
Daniel Ives"
