If you are talking about Daniel Morgan of Virginia, he was captured by the British at Quebec and was a prisoner of war for a while. -----Original Message----- From: Bill Carr [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 9:02 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AMER-REV] Fort Pitt Pardon me for interjecting myself into this conversation, but I'm in the (Saratoga) area and have some background on what happened up here. (1) I'd love the reference. Please provide to all. (2) We're talking 1777. Without looking it up, I'm not sure where Morgan was after the fiasco at Quebec, but I've got a nagging feeling he was with Washington in the Jerseys, before he was sent up here to help Schuyler/Gates. By the way, many of us Yorkers think Schuyler was the hero, and Gates should only be commended for not messing it up. (3) Agree that Morgan and his folks were instrumental at Saratoga. He, along with John Glover, is one of the under-appreciated officers of the Revolution. -- Bill Carr Town of Malta Saratoga County, NY Lossing's Field Books of the Revolution and War of 1812; http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/ List Administrator for RootsWeb's DUSTIN mailing list. Coordinator for Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut page; http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wcarr1/ David Armstrong wrote: > Hi Frank: > > I was interested when you said you work on Saratoga. In the 1770s in > an adjoining county to this one a guy was brought before the court for > being a tory. It was charged that he had got drunk and said "All the > American Army ever did was take Burgoyne and that was by accident!". > Do you have any idea what he meant by a statement like that? I can > send the reference if you want it. > > What is the address of your web site? > > Best regards > > David Armstrong > Elkins, WV > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Frank Goodway" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 6:03 PM > Subject: [AMER-REV] Fort Pitt > > >> I'm very interested in finding any rosters that might be available. I >> work on a web site that involves the battles at Saratoga in Sept. and >> Oct. 1777. Col. Daniel Morgan, at the request of General Washington, >> put >> together a corp of riflemen from PA and VA. From what I've been reading >> here, I'm pretty sure they came out of Fort Pitt. They were very >> instrumental in both battles at Saratoga. >> >> The captains I have are Hawkins Boone, Samuel Cabell, William Henderson, >> James Knox, Gabriel Long, Thomas Posey and Van Swearingen. Don't have >> very many of Long's men. >> Can anybody help? >> Frank Goodway > ==== AMERICAN-REVOLUTION Mailing List ==== Hoaxes and Urban Legends on the Internet http://www.snopes.com/ <A HREF="http://www.snopes.com/">Snopes.com</a> ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx