Primary Document: The King’s Highway
		This document tells us that: • NYS was organized as a Province in early days. • In order to be an official King’s road, certain standards had to be met. (a rod is 16 ½ feet); roads were usually 66 feet or so wide– this unusual width may be due to a transcription error (16/5 x 40 = 660 feet!) • People were modifying the landscape by 1735, and calling it “improvements”. • That some landholders grew crops beyond their own family’s needs, and called them “plantations”, even in the north.
	Colonials: Modifying environment, government