Good Morning, Heritage Hunters maintains the Saratoga GenWebPage at www.rootsweb.com/~nysarato and one of our on-going projects is the Battle of Saratoga. We started with records/sources that the Battlefield library contained and now from other sources. To place a name on this list we have required that there be a record such as a pension or some other qualified source, including from Albany County records. I call upon the members of this list for input as to what you would qualify as documentation. Since many of the records were burned, we are searching for other sources beyond Berthold Fernow's and James Roberts' work. A question has come up about the 13th regiment of the Albany County Militia. Of the 13th Regiment, it is reported that 191 were Saratoga District Taxpayers but would you consider this prima facia evidence that they were part of the 500 men Governor Clinton had detached from each regiment and placed under General Ten Broeck's command to have been at the 2nd battle? Some members of the 13th Regiment received land bounty rights but would this, without specific record of being at the battle, put them at the battles of Saratoga? We have only listed those shown in various records to have been at Saratoga during the actual battles. We would appreciate any record sources known (and their locations) for further documentation. Our Battlefield Project leader would like to have some input from this list about qualifying information that does not specifically state their involvement. I will forward all messages to him and Heritage Hunters board to further qualify our requirements. If this is not a subject for this list, please email me directly but I think we all are concerned with documentation. I have found many occasions in published material where that has not been important and after researching the original source have discovered that the author has taken the liberty to change or eliminate some facts. God Bless Ruth Ann Messick [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask]