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	Whitehall, New York. Who is Whitehall, New York? What is Whitehall, New York? Where is Whitehall, New York? Definition ...
		Whitehall, New York is a village in Washington County, New York.
		The village is located on the Vermont border at the south end of Lake Champlain and lies between Champlain and Lake George.
		The village was founded in 1759 as Skenesboro Captain Philip Skene of the British army.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Whitehall,_New_York (171 words)

	Dafoe Genealogy - aqw04.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mary Louise DAFOE was born 1785 in Albany New York.
		Elizabeth SCHAFER was born 2 Jun 1789 in Claverack Columbia New York.
		Critje SCHAFER was born 1 Dec 1796 in Claverack Columbia New York.
	www.koolpages.com /dafoegen/tree/aqwg04.htm (991 words)

	THE NATURAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY OF VERMONT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The new county was divided into half shires, Newbury and Kingsland,[7] and (strange to relate) a log Court House and Gaol were erected at the latter place, though in the wilderness, and eight miles distant from any settlement; there the Courts were opened and adjourned to Newbury.
		The plan of the land monopolizers of New York was to get in possession and to occupy the lands contiguous to Champlain, as they had done on the east part of the grants adjoining Connecticut River, and thereby be able to subject the interior country.
		That a new government would infallibly establish the title of their lands under the New Hampshire Grants; and that the unappropriated lands might be disposed of to defray the expences of Government and the war.
	members.aol.com /chalidze/vermont.html (13142 words)

	Chronology17
		News was received on the 2nd of May of the eminent arrival of fifteen ships carrying British General John Burgoyne along with reinforcements consisting of one English regiment, seven Irish regiments and 4,300 Germans.
		The news put a scare into the Americans, turning what Thomas hoped would be an orderly withdrawal into a rout.
		The Congress had received news of the disaster at Trois Rivieres on 17 June, 1776 and they responded to it with the suggestion to General Washington to appoint Major General Horatio Gates to command the American army in Canada.
	www.motherbedford.com /Chronology17.htm (3428 words)

	Revolutionary War Battles
		In Hoosick, New York, eight miles west of the Bennington Battle Monument, the ill-equipped and often barefoot rebels met and soundly defeated the British troops.
		Burgoyne awaited news of Clinton's advance until 17th October 1777 when he was forced to surrender his force to Gates who had by the end between 18,000 and 20,000 men.
		Passports will be granted for procuring them further supplies from New York, as occasion may require, and proper hospitals will be furnished for the reception of the sick and wounded of the two garrisons.
	webpages.charter.net /wisconsinlegion-7thdistrict/Rev_War_Battles1.htm (10770 words)

	Daniel Pierce Thompson - The Green Mountain Boys (1840)
		In this Vermont classic, which covers the periods of the controversy with New York, and the Revolution, certain incidents historically separated by one or more years are woven together for the sake of unity of design.
		The posse, guided by Jacob Sherwood, a spy, and the secret agent of New York land-jobbers, surrounded a cave in which all the Vermonters were supposed to be concealed, and the surrender of the "kenneled dogs" was demanded.
		Prouty soon shrieked for mercy, and the men were released; the Squire to be dismissed with a warning, the surveyor to be taken to the New York line, across which he was propelled by a kick from Jones.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles34/authors-35.shtml (9198 words)

	Gazetteer
		The first is in New Jersey, 4.5 miles ESE of Hackensack and later renamed Fort Lee; the second is in the Highlands, opposite West Point, on the east side of the Hudson, 0.5 miles N of West Point.
		New Jersey county the courthouse of which is located at Freehold.
		Northern New York; Tryon was a former county which was broken into parts of present-day Broome, Cayuga, Chemung, Chenango, Cortland, Delaware, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Jefferson, Lewis, Madison, Montgomery, Oneida, Onondaga, Oswego, Otsego, St. Lawrence, Schoharie, Schuyler, Senaca, Tioga, Tompkins, and Wayne counties.
	www.revwar75.com /ob/gazetteer.htm (1322 words)

	gates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Gates subsequently served as President of the Board of War, as commander of the Eastern and Southern Departments, and later in the New York Legislature.
		She was one of General Arnold's flotilla but was not completed in time to take part in the battle of Lake Champlain which delayed the British invasion from Canada.
		The galley was blown up at Skenesboro, N.Y., in 1777 to prevent her being captured.
	www.hazegray.org /danfs/patrol/gates.htm (165 words)

	Logistics and the Defeat of Gentleman Johnny
		Burgoyne was not new to the North American theater when he arrived in Canada in the summer of 1777 to take command of the multinational force that would attempt to sever the New England colonies from their Middle Atlantic brethren.
		However, despite the desire to move to New York for strategic reasons, the army was moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, primarily because Howe and Clinton were unsure if they could subsist adequately in the New York area.
		The difficulties of conducting military operations during an oppressive New York summer, through dense foliage and over difficult terrain, and the resulting delays that allowed the rebels to reorganize and resupply their forces compounded the inadequacy of Burgoyne's transportation.
	www.almc.army.mil /alog/issues/julaug00/ms516.htm (3929 words)

	Articles - Saratoga Campaign (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The plan to separate the New England was based on the two anchors of occupied New York City and the recently secured Canada.
		Schuyler had withdrawn to Stillwater, New York and the Americans were prepared to repeat the tactic of delay from Fort Edward to Saratoga.
		General Burgoyne had paused in Saratoga, New York to await word of Howe's and St. Ledger's forces and rest after his difficult passage through the wilderness.
	www.gaple.com /articles/Saratoga_Campaign (2708 words)

	American Revolution Round Table Program Webpage
		The speaker's conclusion was that by limiting the reach of British warships in American waters and interfering with their efforts to obtain fresh provisions and water, the galleys of the Virginia and Maryland navies helped protect the tobacco shipments vital to obtaining loans in France.
		His main theme was that New York City (NYC) was the central focus of a long war; a war which is mostly remembered for the famous military engagements and victories that took place elsewhere in the American colonies — e.g., Saratoga, Cowpens, Yorktown, etc..
		For the British, and so stated by some American leaders such as John Adams, New York was "key to the Continent." Significantly, with its excellent harbor and confluence of major water ways, New York permitted control of, and access to, much on the inland regions of the colonies in the north.
	www.xenophongroup.com /patriot/arrt/arrtprgm.htm (15838 words)

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		They were received by McFARLANE with the hospitality usual among new settlers and kept about a week, when they learned that their father had returned to his cabin and was almost distracted at the absence of his children.
		He had brought the rest of the family, with the help of a horse, on either side of which he slung a kettle, placed the feather bed and bedding on top of which his wife was mounted with one child in her arms and one lashed to her back.
		MARSH went again to Coos, New Hampshire, for a bushel of what, and afterwards began a trade of exchanging moose beef for corn with the settlers in Jericho, by which he kept starvation at arm's length.
	www.rockvillemama.com /washington/marshjames.txt (1762 words)

	VERMONT TIMES
		In 1906 Vermont appointed a commission to confer with another appointed by New York relative to a joint celebration for the tercentennial of the lake’s discovery.
		The English, now in Canada, felt they could isolate the New England rebel colonies from their brothers in the Middle and Southern states if they controlled the Champlain Valley and the Hudson River to their bases in New York City.
		Trees, tepees, a stockade, a council fire, canoes and accessories were used in the depiction of the Indian version of the story of Hiawatha, the Mohawk siege of Hochelaga and the battle of Champlain and his allies with the Iroquois.
	www.vt-fcgs.org /300th_champlain.html (1641 words)

	Historic Fort Ticonderoga, New York - A Revolutionary Place along US Route 7
		The boats that were suppose to be captured from Skenesboro (Whitehall, New York) had never arrived.
		Dedicated to memory of the gallant band of patriots let by Ethan Allen who on the 10th of May, 1775 captured this important fortress, secured for the Americans a valuable base of operations on Lake George and Champlain.
		Erected by the Sons of the Revolution in the State of New York, MDCCCC.
	www.revolutionaryday.com /usroute7/ticonderoga/ticonderoga.htm (890 words)

	Patriot William Bennett
		In August, 1776, at the age of 18, William Bennett enlisted in Sandown, New Hampshire as a Private for an enlistment term of one year in the Company of Captain Nathan Brown in the regiment commanded by Colonel Pierce Long of the New Hampshire State Militia.
		The fortification known as Fort Anne was erected in 1757 in Washington County, New York, at the junction of Halfway Creek and Wood Creek, and was constructed on the stockade plan.
		William Bennett again volunteered for service in September of 1782 again at New Christ, New Hampshire in the Company of Captain Cutting Farror for a term of three months where he was again employed to guard the frontiers of the state along the Connecticut River.
	pages.prodigy.net /parrish55/FoxValleyWilliamBennett.html (1471 words)

	Sandcastle V.I. - Voyages of the Enterprise - The Fight for Independence
		On May 29th, Colonel Ethan Allen received an abstract of the minutes of the Continental Congress, in which it was recommended that the Continental Army and Navy withdraw from the northern portion of Lake Champlain.
		At Skenesboro and Ticonderoga, Arnold, now a general, built up a larger fleet and again entered battle with the British on October 11, 1776, near Plattsburg, New York.
		The small fleet had so disrupted the British invasion into New York that, with the approach of winter, it was nearly a year before another attack could be mounted by the British.
	www.sandcastlevi.com /sea/enterprise/voych03.htm (1458 words)

	Lee
		He helped besiege Boston and early in 1776 went to New York to prepare Continental defenses of the area.
		For more than a year he was held in New York where he offered assistance to Sir William Howe in planning the capture of Philadelphia.
		However, while suffering a serious tactical defeat, General Arnold’s ships won a great strategic victory by delaying for a year the British advance on New York, a year in which the patriots prepared for the new British offensive which ended with the capture of the British Army at Saratoga.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/l5/lee-ii.htm (661 words)

	Wells - Campbell Family Tree - Person Page 255
		He then enlisted in the Continental Army for a period of six months, and was stationed on York Island (New York) until it was captured by the British.
		His unit escaped across The North River (Hudson) to Hackensack Bridge, New Jersey and thence to Morristown, New Jersey, where he was taken sick and placed in a hospital.
		William was a soldier in the French and Indian War at Ticonderoga, petioned for a new highway in 'Goshan' 4/27/1733, for the formation of troop of horse in May 1741.
	ourwebsite.org /jane/jane-p/p255.shtml (1316 words)

	Skenesborough (Whitehall, NY) -- A Site on a Revolutionary War Road Trip
		Founded as the colonial town of Skenesboro by British Army Captain Philip Skene, this community became the first permanent settlement on Lake Champlain.
		On May 9, 1775, Skenesboro was captured by American forces in the first aggressive revolutionary war action in New York State.
		In this vicinity at Wood Creek Falls stood the Skenesboro mill that was used to saw plank for Benedict Arnold's 1776 Valcour fleet.
	www.revolutionaryday.com /usroute4/whitehall (652 words)

	The Army Medical Department 1775-1818: Year of Despair and Hope, June 1777 to June 1778
		Troops in the New Jersey-Pennsylvania area saw no major action until September of the new season since during the early summer the maneuvers of the British general, William Howe, in an attempt to force the Continental Army to give battle in the vicinity of Brunswick and Amboy, New Jersey, were in vain.
		The reports of hospital surgeons on the number of men being cared for in their facilities differed markedly from those of regimental surgeons who were, despite the general's efforts, still careless, both in meeting the deadlines which had been set for their reports and in clearing hospitalizations with Cochran.
		Although Otto's patients began to arrive before the new building was ready for use and thus had to be sheltered in three nearby barns, the Yellow Springs unit quickly acquired a reputation for being "very neat, and the sick comfortably provided" for.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/rev/gillett1/ch4.htm (8680 words)

	Crown Point, An Outline History by Gregory T. Furness
		Though Governor George Clinton of New York supported the plan, no expedition was raised and efforts were directed at other targets such as the French Fortress of Louisbourg at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, which was successfully captured.
		William Johnson was placed in command of a force of 3,500 Provincial troops from New England, New York, and New Jersey, for the expedition against Fort St. Frédéric.
		1768- Governor Henry Moore of New York proposed the establishment of a large town at Crown Point, and a plan drafted by Adolphus Benzel (a retired officer resident at Crown Point) was sent to the King for approval; under consideration was the establishment of a new "northern province".
	www.historiclakes.org /crown_pt/furness.html (3972 words)

	The Battle of Saratoga
		On 10th July 1777 Burgoyne’s force reached Skenesboro where it concentrated on clearing the road to the North for supplies and to the South for the advance.
		The American authorities made determined efforts to raise the New England militia and to implement a scorched earth policy in the path of the British advance.
		Burgoyne awaited news of Clinton’s advance until 17th October 1777, when he was forced to sign the convention by which his troops surrendered to Gates, who had by then between 18,000 and 20,000 men.
	britishbattles.com /battle-saratoga.htm (1726 words)

	Chapter XVII History of the Town of Bridport
		Although frequently annoyed by the impertinent demands and hostile demonstrations of the "York State men," they succeeded in maintaining full possession of their domicile, living in peaceful and friendly relations with the Indians, who frequently visited the settlement, until a short time previous to Carleton's raid in 1778.
		On receipt of the news of the approach of that irregular and destructive band, Mr.
		In most of the new townships the ruined habitations were once more taking on the garb of civilization, the Green Mountains echoing the strokes of the woodman's axe.
	www.middlebury.edu /academics/lis/lib/guides_and_tutorials/guides_to_collections/collection_guide-vermont/internet_resources/history_addison_county/chap17_hac.htm (7118 words)

	Timeline: Military Period—American Revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The control of Lake Champlain was recognized as “the Key to Liberty.” If the British gained control of the Lake, they would command the most direct invasion route from British Canada to New York.
		Separating the New England colonies from the others would make communication and the movement of soldiers and supplies difficult, perhaps impossible.
		At Skenesboro, under the guidance of Benedict Arnold, the Americans built eight 54-foot gondolas and four 72-foot galleys.
	www.lcmm.org /site/harbor/resource_pages/timeline/military/rev/rev.htm (430 words)

	USS Gates
		Gates subsequently served as President of the Board of War, as commander of the Eastern and Southern Departments, and later in the New York Legislature He died in New York City in 1806.
		Gates was built in 1776 on Lake Champlain, near Whitehall, N.Y., by the forces under command of Benedict Arnold.
		She was one of General Arnold's flotilla but was not completed in time to take part in the battle of Lake Champlain which delayed the British invasion from Ganada.
	www.multied.com /Navy/Brigatines/Gates.html (165 words)

	An Adirondack Vacation
		All of the state of New York is historic, but one of the most interesting places I visited was Fort Ticonderoga near Lake George, NY.
		Fort Ticonderoga is located in Upstate New York between Lake George and Lake Champlain.
		The French built the fort In New York to protect their fur trading highways.
	home.rochester.rr.com /ddoty/vacation.html (1136 words)

	Etext Library - Center on Religion and Democracy
		In 1762 he participated in the West Indian expedition and was one of the first to enter the breach at the storming of Habana.
		In 1763 he returned to New York, where, in 1765, he obtained a patent for the township of Skenesboro (now Whitehall), and resided there after 1770, running a line between Canada and the Colonies, and superintending the settlement of the then uninhabited border country.
		The Quarter Master General has just received from General Schuyler, about 1700£ (York currency) worth of Clothing, for the Soldiery, It has come very seasonably as they are in great want, and will contribute a little to their relief.
	etext.lib.virginia.edu /etcbin/toccer-reldem?id=WasFi04.xml&images=images/modeng&data=/texts/english/modeng/parsed&tag=public&part=237&division=div1 (1957 words)

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