The 1777 March of the Saratoga Convention Army

After leaving Pittsfield , much of the British column of the Convention Army marched through what was then  Partridgefield  to Worthington, Massachusetts, where they would stay on the night of October 25, 1777.  The following day some proceeded on to Chesterfield and stopped again to spend the night.  Their march to  Northampton  on October 27th would be the halfway point in their journey from the surrender at Saratoga , New York, to their confinement in the barracks at Winter Hill in Charlestown, Massachusetts, both in days and in distance.   Worthington, incorporated in 1764 , was one of what were three Berkshire hill towns then, but five towns now, that the British column would march through from Pittsfield to Northampton.  Chesterfield , to its east, had been incorporated in 1760.  Neither Worthington nor Chesterfield was marked on Captain John Montressor's 1775 map of New England, shown here in part as published in London in 1...