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When news of the British invasion reached the farmers who tilled these fields, some went north to join the Crown Forces. One such loyalist was John Freeman. On a hot summer afternoon in 1777, one of Freeman’s neighbors who stayed to fight for the Patriot cause may have paused thoughtfully as he passed his old friend’s abandoned fields and home, in the landscape where events later unfolded in what is now Saratoga National Historical Park.
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