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Revolutionary War Units and Their Commanders
in 1776 and 1977

Source: THE SCOTCH-IRISH OR THE SCOT IN NORTH BRITAIN, NORTH IRELAND, AND NORTH AMERICA, CHAPTER I THE SCOTCH-IRISH AND THE REVOLUTION, page 1011

1776 / 1777

Revolutionary War Units in 1776

The infantry establishment of 1776 consisted of twenty-seven regiments of "Continentals" so-called, composed of:

Pennsylvania

the 1st, under Colonel William Thompson;

New Hampshire

the 2d, Colonel James Reed;
5th, Colonel John Stark;
8th, Colonel Enoch Poor;

Massachusetts

the 3d, Colonel Ebenezer Learned;
4th, Colonels John Nixon and Thomas Nixon;
6th, Colonel Asa Whitcomb;
7th, Colonel William Prescott;
12th, Colonel Moses Little;
13th, Colonel Joseph Reed;
14th, Colonel John Glover;
15th, Colonel John Paterson;
16th, Colonel Paul D. Sargent;
18th, Colonel Edmund Phinney;
21st, Colonel Jonathan Ward;
23d, Colonel John Bailey;
24th, Colonel John Greaton;
25th, Colonel William Bond;
26th. Colonel Loammi Baldwin;
27th, Colonel IsraelHutchinson;

Rhode Island

9th, Colonel James Varnum;
11th, Colonel Daniel Hitchcock;

Connecticut

10th, Colonels Samuel H. Parsons and John Tyler;
17th, Colonel Jedediah Huntington;
19th, Colonel Charles Webb; 20th,
Colonels Benedict Arnold and John Durkee;
22d, Colonel Samuel Wyllys.

There were also an additional regiment from New Hampshire, Colonel Seth Warner's, and one from Pennsylvania and Maryland, Colonel Nicholas Hausegger's, both afterwards included in
the sixteen additional regiments raised under resolve of Congress of 27th December, 1776.

Besides the Continental Line of 1776, the following States also furnished Continental troops in that year:

New York Line, five regiments:

1st, Colonels Rudolphus Ritzema and Gosen Van Schaick;
2d, Colonels G. Van Schaick and James Clinton;
3d, Colonels James Clinton, Rudolphus Ritzema, and Peter Gansevoort;
4th, Colonels Cornelius Wynkoop and Henry Livingston;
5th, Colonel Lewis Dubois;

New Jersey Line, four regiments:

1st, Colonels William Alexander, William Winds, and Silas Newcomb;
2d, Colonels William Maxwell and Israel Shreve;
3d, Colonel Elias Dayton;
4th, Colonels Ephraim Martin and David Brearley (Lieutenant-Colonel);

Pennsylvania Line,seven battalions:

1st, Colonel John P. De Haas;
2d, Colonels Arthur St.Clair and Joseph Wood;
3d, Colonels John Shee and Lambert Cadwallader;
4th, Colonel Anthony Wayne;
5th, Colonel Robert Magaw;
6th, Colonel William Irvine;
7th, Colonel Samuel Miles, Rifle Battalion;

.... and five additional regiments:

8th, Colonel Æneas Mackay;
8th, Colonel James Irvine;
10th, Colonel Joseph Penrose;
11th, Colonel Richard Humpton;
12th, Colonel William Cook;

Delaware Line, one regiment:

Colonel John Haslet;

Maryland Line, seven regiments:

1st, Colonels William Smallwood and Francis Ware;
2d, Colonel Thomas Price;
3d, Colonel Mordecai Gist;
4th, Colonel Josiah C. Hall;
5th, Colonel William Richardson;
6th, Colonel Otho H. Williams;
7th, Colonel John Gunby;

Virginia Line, fifteen regiments:

1st, Colonel James Reed:
2d, Colonel William Woodford;
3d, Colonels Hugh Mercer and George Weedon;
4th, Colonels Adam Stephen and Thomas Elliott;
5th, Colonels William Peachy and Charles Scott;
6th, Colonel Mordecai Buckner;
7th, Colonels William Dangerfield and William Crawford;
8th, Colonel Peter Muhlenberg;
9th, Colonels Charles Fleming and Isaac Reed;
10th, Colonel Edward Stevens;
11th, Colonel Daniel Morgan;
12th, Colonel James Wood;
13th, Colonel William Russell;
14th, Colonel Charles Lewis;
15th, Colonel David Mason;

North Carolina Line, nine regiments:

1st, Colonels James Moore and Francis Nash;
2d, Colonels Robert Howe and Alexander Martin;
3d, Colonel Jethro Sumner;
4th, Colonel Thomas Polk;
5th, Colonel John A. Lillington;
6th, Colonel Edward Buncombe;
7th, Colonel James Hogan;
8th, Colonel James Armstrong;
9th, Colonel Abraham Shephard;

South Carolina Line, five regiments:

1st, Colonels Christopher Gadsden and Charles C. Pinckney;
2d, Colonels William Moultrie and Isaac Motte;
3d, Colonel William Thompson;
4th,------;
5th, Colonel Isaac Huger;

Georgia Line,two regiments:

1st, Colonel Lachlan McIntosh;
2d, Colonel Joseph Habersham.

Artillery

Besides these eighty-nine regiments of infantry there were two artillery regiments:

Colonels Richard Gridley and Henry Knox's Massachusetts Artillery and
Colonel Charles Harrison's Virginia Artillery.

There was also a regiment of light horse organized in Connecticut by Colonel Elisha Sheldon.

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Revolutionary War Units in 1777

In 1777 the New Hampshire Line contained three regiments under

Colonels John Stark and Joseph Cilley,
Enoch Poor, and
Alexander Scammell;

the Massachusetts Line, sixteen, under

Colonels Joseph Vose,
John Bailey,
John Greaton,
William Shepard,
Rufus Putnam,
Thomas Nixon,
Ichabod Allen,
Michael Jackson, James Wesson,
Thomas Marshall,
Ebenezer Francis and Samuel Carlton (Lieutenant-Colonel),
Edward Wigglesworth,
Gamaliel Bradford, and
Timothy Bigelow;

the Rhode Island Line, two, under

Colonels Christopher Greene and
Israel Angell;

the Connecticut Line, eight, under

Colonels Jedediah Huntington and Josiah Starr,
Charles Webb,
Samuel Wyllys,
John Durkee,
Philip B. Bradley,
William Douglas and Return J. Meigs,
Heman Swift,
John Chandler;

the New York Line, five, under

Colonels Gosen Van Schaick,
Peter Van Cortland,

Correction submitted to me by E-Mail: "Phillip van Cortlandt was colonel of the 2nd NY in 1777. Pierre van Cortlandt, Phillip's father, was a noted NY politician and involved in various committees."

Peter Gansevoort,
Henry B. Livingston,
and Lewis Dubois;

the New Jersey Line, four, under

Colonels Mathias Ogden,
Israel Shreve,
Elias Dayton,
and David Rhea (Lieutenant-Colonel);

the Pennsylvania Line, thirteen, under

Colonels Edward Hand and James Chambers,
John P. De Haas,
James Irvine and Henry Bicker,
Joseph Wood and Thomas Craig,
Lambert Cadwallader,
Francis Johnston,
Robert Magaw,
William Irvine,
Æneas Mackay and Daniel Brodhead,
James Irvine and Anthony J. Morris and Richard Butler,
Joseph Penrose and James Chambers and Adam Hubley (Lieutenant-Colonel),
Richard Humpton,
William Cook and John Bull;

the Delaware Line, one, under

Colonel David Hall;

the Maryland Line, seven, under

Colonels John H. Stone,
Thomas Price,
Mordecai Gist,
Josias Hall,
William Richardson,
Otho H. Williams,and John Gunby;

the Virginia Line, fifteen, under

Colonels James Reed and James Hendricks,
William Woodford and Alexander Spotswood,
George Weedon and Thomas Marshall,
Thomas Elliott and Robert Lawson and Isaac Reed,
Charles Scott and Josiah Parker,
Mordecai Buckner and John Gibson,
William Crawford and Alexander McClanachan,
Peter Muhlenberg and Abraham Bowman and John Neville,
Isaac Reed and George Matthews,
Edward Stevens,
Daniel Morgan,
James Wood,
William Russell,
Charles Lewis, and David Mason;

the North Carolina Line, ten, under

Colonels Francis Nash and Thomas Clarke,
Alexander Martin and John Patton,
Jethro Sumner,
Thomas Polk,
Edward Buncombe,
Gideon Lamb,
James Hogan,
James Armstrong,
John Williams,
and Abraham Shephard;

the South Carolina Line, five, under

Colonels Charles C. Pinckney,
Isaac Motte,
William Thompson,
------(4th),
and Isaac Huger (5th);

and the Georgia Line, four, under

Colonels ------(1st),
Samuel Elbert (2d),
------(3d),
and John White (4th).

Lieutenant Colonel John McIntosh commanded one of the Georgia regiments.