The beginning of the book tells of the history of the building of the National Road, the trials and tribulations of the builders, the state and federal legislation needed to build and maintain the road, the the bridges and other structures built along the road. It then continues into descriptions of life on the road and the sites you would see along the road. Then the descriptions of the wagoners, stages, stagecoach drivers, mail coaches, old taverns...

This informative genealogy presents ten generations of the descendants of the Huguenot John Mallet (1673-1745). John was one of some 300,000 Huguenots (a Calvinist religious sect) who fled France in the 17th century to escape religious persecution. After a brief stay in South Carolina, during which he lost his first wife and all of their children, John relocated to New England and is noted as a resident of Fairfield, Connecticut as early as 1710....