Towns and Villages

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Below is a list of the towns and villages the Convention Army passed through (or in some cases likely passed through) on their march from Saratoga to Cambridge in 1777.  Most all of these towns have changed considerably since the march.  Here and there along the way a few buildings which witnessed their passing still stand, such as the tavern of Isaac Jones in Weston, Massachusetts, "the most convenient inn of any on the road":


Surrender Site and Crossing of the Hudson River:

Saratoga (Village of Schuylerville), NY

Stillwater, NY

Tulls Mills and Schaghticoke, NY


Burgoyne's Stay in Albany:
- The Schuyler Mansion


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, MA (now Dalton, Hinsdale and Peru)

Worthington, MA

Chesterfield, MA

Northampton, MA (including through what is now Westhampton), and across the Connecticut River. 

Hadley, MA

Amherst, MA

Belchertown, MA

Ware, MA

Palmer, MA  (not specifically mentioned in British accounts reviewed to date)


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

Lansingburgh, NY (also known as "New City", now a part of Troy)

Greenbush, NY

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

Spencertown, NY

Nobletown, MA (Hillsdale, NY since 1782)

Egremont, MA


Great Barrington, MA


Tyringham, MA (including what became Monterey in 1847)

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

Blandford, MA

Westfield, MA (including what became Russell in 1792)

West Springfield, MA, and across the Connecticut River

Springfield, MA

Wilbraham, MA (not specifically mentioned in information reviewed to date)

Monson, MA (not specifically mentioned in information reviewed to date)

Palmer, MA (on a separate route from the British column)

Brimfield, MA  (not specifically mentioned in information reviewed to date)


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

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

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

Spencer, MA

Leicester, MA

Worcester, MA


Shrewsbury, MA 

Northborough, MA

Marlborough, MA 

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

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



Westborough/Weston Off-Shoot From Northborough:


Westborough, MA

Southborough, MA  (not specifically mentioned in information reviewed to date)


Framingham, MA  (not specifically mentioned in information reviewed to date)

Sudbury, MA  (not mentioned in this context in information reviewed to date)

Weston, MA 

Newton, MA


Remainder of the Common Route:


Waltham, MA

Watertown, MA

Cambridge, MA


Charlestown, MA, in the area which became Somerville in 1842:



For more on the Convention Army's 1777 march from Saratoga to Boston, see:

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