Biographies: Revolutionary War Era

 

Army of the United States

• Benedict Arnold
  • Major General in the Continental Army
• Henry Dearborn
  • Major, served with the Continental Army at Saratoga
• Horatio Gates
  • Major General and Commander of the American forces at Saratoga.
• Tadeusz (Thaddeus) Kosciuszko
  • Colonel, military engineer who designed American defenses at Saratoga
• Daniel Morgan
  • Colonel, commander of "Morgan's Riflemen"
• John Neilson
  • Local farmer, owner of the Neilson House, served with the local American militia in the Battles of Saratoga
• Philip Schuyler
  • Continental Army General, local landowner and buisinessman, owner of the Schuyler House
• James Wilkinson
  • Deputy adjutant general for General Horatio Gates in 1777

Army of the Crown Forces

• John Burgoyne
  • General and commander of the Crown (British) Forces at Saratoga
• Simon Fraser
  • British Brigidier General
• John Freeman
  • Rented what became known as the Freeman Farm from Philip Schuyler, served with the Royalist Americans at the Battles of Saratoga
• Friedrich Adolf Riedesel
  • Lieutenant General, commander of all German and American Indian forces on the Saratoga Campaign
• Frederica Charlotte Louise Riedesel
  • Baroness, wife of Friedrich Riedesel, kept a journal of the Campaign

Other - Unknown

• Jotham Bemus
  • Owner of Bemus Tavern, namesake of Bemus Heights
• Jane McCrea
  • Non-combatant, royalist