The 1777 March of the Saratoga Convention Army

Where was Henry Knox between January 13 and January 18, 1776? On November 16, 1775, General George Washington tasked twenty-five year old Henry Knox, a bookseller from Boston, to travel to New York and bring back artillery, ammunition and gun flints for the Continental Army which surrounded British occupied Boston.  Knox's  "Noble Train of Artillery" , like the Convention Army, passed through dozens of towns and villages on its way south from Fort Ticonderoga in New York, and then east across Massachusetts. [1]  After crossing Lake George, and reaching Saratoga, it followed the route taken by British Lieutenant-General John Burgoyne after his surrender on October 17, 1777 , and the German column , once it reached Greenbush , for much of the way.  On January 5, 1776, Knox wrote to Washington from Albany that despite his having expected to reach Cambridge by January 2 or 3, he now hoped that:  In eight or nine days after the first severe frost [the artillery des...