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American Revolution: Battles of Saratoga, September 19 and October 7, 1777

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  • Fife Major Alexander McKay (1732 - 1812)
    John McKay served in the New York, 1st but authorized as the 2nd Regiment with the rank of, Fife Major in the American Revolution. In the beginning of the formation they were assigned to the Northern a...
  • Pvt. Abijah Hitchcock (1759 - 1844)
    HITCHCOCK, ABIJAH--Born May 14, 1759. Died April 9, 1844, aged 84 years, 10 months and 25 days. Grave in Ellington (Pioneer)Cemetery, town of Ellington. Enlisted May, 1777, at Brimfield, Mass. Served t...
  • Timothy Bigelow, Massachusetts Speaker of the House (1767 - 1821)
    DAR Ancestor #: A010059Timothy Bigelow, Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to parents Timothy Bigelow and Anna Andrews, He apprenticed to Isaiah Thomas for two years. They remained friends. Mr. Thomas m...
  • Lt. Col. Stephen Jeremiah Hogeboom (1744 - 1814)
    Stephen Jeremiah Hogeboom, was born on August 16, 1744, to Jeremiah Pieter Hogeboom and Jannetje VanAllen. Jeremiah was married to Heletje Muller and was among earliest and influential members of the...
  • Capt. Daniel Rand (1742 - 1811)
    Ancestor #: A093911 Service: NEW HAMPSHIRE Rank(s): CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE, CAPTAINHAMMOND, ROLLS OF THE SOLS IN THE REV WAR, NH STATE PAPERS, VOL 14, PP 35, 332, VOL 15, PP 348-349; BATCHELL...

Description

The Battles of Saratoga (September 19 and October 7, 1777) marked the climax of the Saratoga campaign giving a decisive victory to the Americans over the British in the American Revolutionary War. British General John Burgoyne led a large invasion army up the Champlain Valley from Canada, hoping to meet a similar force marching northward from New York City; the southern force never arrived, and Burgoyne was surrounded by American forces in upstate New York. Burgoyne fought two small battles to break out. They took place eighteen days apart on the same ground, 9 miles south of Saratoga, New York. They both failed. Trapped by superior American forces, with no relief in sight, Burgoyne surrendered his entire army on October 17. "His surrender", says historian Edmund Morgan, "was a great turning point of the war, because it won for Americans the foreign assistance which was the last element needed for victory".

Purpose of Project

To honor and recognize our ancestors involved in the Battles of Saratoga.

Please verify their service and link their profiles to the listing at the Saratoga Web Site.

The Saratoga Campaign of the Revolutionary War

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