Moses Kill
The Moses Kill is an approximately 22.0-mile-long (35.4 km)[2] tributary stream of the Hudson River in New York state. The source is in the foothills of the Taconic Mountains in Hartford in Washington county. The stream flows thru the town and village of Argyle before entering the Hudson River at Fort Edward, just south of Griffin Island.
History
Beginning in the late 1760s the Moses Kill's water was dammed at a few locations to support several small mills near Argyle Village.[3] In July 1777, Polish military engineer Col. Thaddeus Kościuszko under the command of American Major General Major Philip Schuyler heavily entrenched and fortified an American camp along the south side of the Moses Kill, where it empties into the Hudson River in hopes of defeating or slowing British General Burgoyne’s army. Burgoyne’s army, advancing from Canada, was part of a British campaign attempting to divide the American colonies. On 30 July, 1777, Schuyler and his army retreated from the Moses Kill southward towards Saratoga owing to an understrength of military forces, lack of adequate supplies, and the potential of being outflanked. A New York State Historical Marker erected in 1927 at the corner of Patterson Road and US Route 4, south of the Moses Kill marks the former intrenchment’s location. [4]
See also
References
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Moses Kill
- ^ U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline data. The National Map, accessed October 16, 2020
- ^ The Argyle History Group (1996). I Remember...Argyle, A Book of Memories.
- ^ Tefft, Tim; Reid, Arthur (2002). A Season of Terror Including Reminiscences of the Revolution or LeLoup’s Bloody Trail. Being a Chronicle of the Events of the Summer and Early Fall of 1777 in and on the Borders of present day Washington County, New York. Greenwich Journal and Salem Press.
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