GUILDERLAND — The only Revolutionary War battle fought in Albany County, the Battle of the Normanskill, long noted with a state historical marker along Route 146, may not have been fought there after all.
Aaron Mair, a Guilderland resident who is African American, continues to be passionate about raising a monument to honor the mixed-race regiment that fought in the battle regardless of the location.
On Aug. 11, 1777, an army of British loyalists, American Tories, had assembled on the banks of the Normans Kill, as the late town historian Arthur Gregg told it, so the Schenectady Regiment and a company of Continental Regulars from Rhode Island were sent to meet the Tory army…