KNOX ENTERS MASSACHUSETTS From Hogeboom’s to Green River, the route would have followed the track laid out by Elliott and Miller with one possible exception. Although there is strong evidence to suggest that the old path followed certain rural roads that exist to this day leaving only once to follow a long abandoned trail which can still be seen, to go to the present village of Green River, and then down along the river to Egremont before turning back northeasterly to Great Barrington, the Robert Treat Paine map indicates a possibility that the route went to present North Hillsdale, then called Nobletown, and climbed directly east over a road which is not too steep on the west approach, but which descends a very steep trail to the east. This unmarked road crosses the Green River near the Green River Inn on route 71.  A road bearing easterly from near the Green River Inn climbs gently and goes directly to Great Barrington. It appears to be both an historic trail and complying with the old maps. The maps do not indicate routing into the quaint and beautiul old village of Alford, although that place was established in 1750, but the road is only a mile away from the hamlet.

Knox had reported a plan to go to Kinderhook, probably to have to get new draft animals there, and then to go “into Great Barrington Massachusetts Bay.” Knox’s diary entries show that, after spending the night at “Claverack about 9 miles beyond Kinderhook” on January 9th, his travel the next day — the 10th– carried him well past present day Great Barrington. This further suggests that he followed the most direct route available with the easiest possible upgrades.

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