Two of the most exciting events of the Revolution took Place in '77. At the call for troops to resist Burgoyne, Captain William King called a town meeting and volunteers went out to Saratoga under Captain Silas Goodrich in the regiment of Colonel John Ashley, also, a company from Alford under Captain Sylvanus Wilcox. "Then came the
news of the dramatic surrender [1] to General Gates, followed by the encampment here of the prisoners-of-war; with laggard steps the officers led the troops down over the old trail through Kinderhook into Great Barrington, wearing their side-arms according to the terms of capitulation made at this "Convention of Saratoga."
Two of the most exciting events of the Revolution took Place in '77. At the call for troops to resist Burgoyne, Captain William King called a town meeting and volunteers went out to Saratoga under Captain Silas Goodrich in the regiment of Colonel John Ashley, also, a company from Alford under Captain Sylvanus Wilcox. "Then came the
news of the dramatic surrender 