Towns and Villages

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The list below indicates which towns and villages elements of the Convention Army likely or are known to have passed through on the march from Saratoga, New York to Cambridge and Somerville (then part of Charlestown), Massachusetts in 1777.  


Above, visitors to West Brookfield's 2022 "White Christmas" celebration ride in a horse drawn wagon.  Once part of Brookfield, this area is near the start of the common route taken by Burgoyne and the Convention Army after following separate paths out of the Hudson River Valley, through the Berkshires and across the Connecticut River.  Here and there along the way structures present in 1777 still stand, in addition to the later building and homes, such as the Federal period house on the right.

Surrender Site and Crossing of the Hudson River:

Saratoga (Village of Schuylerville), NY

Stillwater, NY

Tulls Mills and Schaghticoke, NY


British Route from Schaghticoke, NY to Western (now Warren), MA:

St. Croix (now North Hoosick), NY

Hoosick, NY

Pownal, VT

Williamstown, MA

New Ashford, MA

Lanesborough, MA

Pittsfield, MA

Partridgefield (now Dalton, Hinsdale and Peru), MA

Worthington, MA

Chesterfield, MA

Northampton, MA (likely in part through what is now Westhampton)/across Connecticut River 

Hadley, MA

Belchertown, MA

Ware, MA


German Route from Schaghticoke, NY to Western (now Warren), MA:

New City (later Lansingburgh, now part of Troy), NY

Greenbush, NY

Claverack, NY (likely through what is now Ghent, NY)

Spencertown, NY

Nobletown, MA (Hillsdale, NY as of 1782)

Egremont, MA


Great Barrington, MA


Tyringham (now Monterey as of 1847 and Tyringham), MA

Green Wood (now in Otis as of 1810), MA

Blandford, MA

Westfield (now Russell as of 1792 and Westfield), MA. 

West Springfield, MA/across Connecticut River

Springfield, MA

Wilbraham, MA (not specifically mentioned as of information available 11/30/22)

Palmer, MA


Common Route from Western (Warren) to Cambridge, and Prospect and Winter Hill, Charlestown (now in Somerville), MA:

Western (known as Warren as of 1834, not to be confused with “Weston” on the common route), MA

Brookfield (now West Brookfield, Brookfield, North Brookfield and East Brookfield), MA

Spencer, MA

Leicester, MA

Worcester, MA


Shrewsbury, MA 

Northborough, MA

Marlborough, MA 

Sudbury (now Sudbury and Wayland as of 1835, formerly Sudbury and East Sudbury as of 1780), MA

Weston (not to be confused with “Western”, now "Warren" on the British and German routes), MA



Westborough/Weston Off-Shoot From Northborough:


Westborough, MA

Southborough, MA (not specifically mentioned as to off-shoot as of information available 1/6/23)


Framingham, MA (not specifically mentioned as to off-shoot as of information available 1/6/23)

Sudbury, MA (not specifically mentioned as to off-shoot as of information available 1/6/23)

Weston, MA 

Newton, MA


Remainder of the Common Route:


Waltham, MA

Watertown, MA

Cambridge, MA


Charlestown (now in Somerville as of 1842), MA:

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