Hi Rhonda, Ed's msg with this website, is a brief overview of what the answer to my question is. http://www.poorhousestory.com/MD_Frederick_POWstory.htm If you note the reference - Dabney, William M. After Saratoga: the story of the Convention Army. Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Press, 1954 [i.e. 1955]90 p. illus. 23 cm. University of New Mexico publication in history, no. 6. He is also one of the references at: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/reference/revbib/pows.htm Prisoners of War ... reading on down the list there are other reference materials listed. Also, Beroth, Janet. "The Convention of Saratoga." Quarterly Journal of the New York State Historical Association, 8 (July 1927), pp. 257-280. *************** Further searching yielded the following: http://www.rootsweb.com/~irish/igsi_published/articles/cntlcngr.htm This is a very interesting article for the genealogist as well as military historian. Seems there is a wealth of information. *************** http://www.philaprintshop.com/amrev.html In 1777 Gen. Burgoyne surrendered his army at Saratoga "by convention," thus it was called the "Convention Army." These troops were marched from New York to the Charlottesville, Virginia area where they built cabins and helped support themselves with subsistence farming. During various British raids in the region, they were moved inland to sites near Winchester, Virginia, Frederick, Maryland, and parts of Pennsylvania. This is the earliest print to show any part of the area of Charlottesville. A fascinating view of Virginia during the American Revolution. $950 --------------- Woods Gap was long the principal crossing of the Blue Ridge. Through it had gone a buffalo trail and later through it went the Three Notched Road, which ran from the Gap east to the South Anna River, passing along what is now the main street of Charlottesville. It was marked by three notches or blazes on trees to guide the stranger. During and after the Revolution the British prisoners of the Convention Army were taken across the Ridge by the Three Notched Road through Woods Gap. Regards, Jan