two from Rhode Island, under Greene and Angell; eight from Connecticut, with the same colonels as in 1777, with the exception of the 2d, in which Zebulon Butler succeeded Charles Webb, and the 8th, in which Giles Russell succeeded John Chandler; five from New York, under the colonels of 1777; four from New Jersey, under the colonels of 1777; thirteen from Pennsylvania, under the colonels of 1777, with the exception of the 2d, in which Walter Stewart succeeded Henry Bicker, the 10th, in which George Nagel first, and afterwards Richard Humpton, succeeded to the command, and the 11th, which was disbanded and its place taken by Colonel Thomas Hartley's 4th Additional Continental Regiment; one from Delaware, under Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph Vaughan; seven from Maryland; fifteen from Virginia, under Richard Parker (1st), Christopher Febiger (2d), William Heath (3d), Isaac Reed and John Neville (4th), Josiah Parker and Richard Russell (5th), John Gibson and John Greene (6th), Alexander McClanachan and Daniel Morgan (7th), John Neville and James Wood (8th), George Matthews and John Gibson (9th), John Green and William Davies (10th), Daniel Morgan and Abraham Buford (11th), James Wood (12th), William Russell (13th), Charles Lewis and William Davies (14th), and David Mason and Abraham Buford (15th); North Carolina, eight; South Carolina, five; Georgia, four, Lieutenant-Colonel John McIntosh succeeding to command of the 3d, where he remained until the close of the war. In 1779, and thereafter, of the sixteen additional regiments raised under resolution of Congress of 27th December, 1776, the 2d and 3d (Virginia) were united under Nathaniel Gist; the 4th (Pennsylvania) was designated as the 11th Pennsylvania; the 5th, 6th, and 7th (Massachusetts) were united under Henry Jackson, and became the 16th Massachusetts in 1780; the 8th and 12th (New Jersey) were united under Oliver Spencer, and the remainder seem mostly to have been continued by their respective States as additional regiments until 1781. The Massachusetts Line (fifteen regiments) remained substantially intact until 1781; as did those of New Hampshire (three regiments), Rhode Island (two regiments), and Connecticut (eight regiments), until the end of 1780. Lieutenant-Colonel Isaac Sherman succeeded Giles Russell in command of the 8th Connecticut in October, 1779; and the names of John Bailey (in 1780), Ichabod Allen (in 1778), Samuel Carlton (in 1778), and Edward Wigglesworth (in 1779) disappear as commanders of regiments from Massachusetts. There was no change in the number or commanders of the five regiments of New York from 1778 to 1781, excepting in the case of the 5th, where Marinus Willet succeeded Lewis Dubois in December, 1779. In New Jersey, the 4th was probably incorporated with one of the additional regiments after 1778. In Pennsylvania, Morgan Connor succeeded William Irvine as commander of the 7th in May, 1779, and he was succeeded in January, 1780, by Josiah Harmar; the 12th and 13th were disbanded before the close of 1778. In Delaware, Joseph Vaughan continued in command of the one regiment from that State to the close of the war. In Maryland, Otho H. Williams was transferred to the command of the 1st and John Gunby to that of the 2d, in January, 1781; Lieutenant-Colonels John E. Howard and Thomas Woolford serving successively in the 5th up to October, 1779, under Colonel William Richardson; and Lieutenant-Colonel N. Ramsay succeeding Mordecai Gist as commander of the 3d at the beginning of 1779. In Virginia, the 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th regiments were disbanded towards the close of 1778; William Davies became colonel of the 1st, Abraham Buford of the 2d, and John Gibson of the 7th, in February, 1781; the 9th, 10th, and 11th having also been disbanded. In North Carolina there are no returns from the 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, after 1778. In South Carolina, the 2d regiment seems to have been under command of Major Isaac Harleston after December, 1778, the 1st and 3d remaining unchanged to 1781; there are no returns, lists, or rolls of the 4th to be found, but Isaac Huger continued as colonel of the 5th to June, 1779, and the regiment remained in service until 1781. The names of Colonels Francis Marion and David Hopkins also appear in orders. In Georgia, the 1st, 2d, and 3d regiments remained in service to the close of the war; the 4th probably not later than 1779. RETURNS OF THE CONTINENTAL LINE REGIMENTS IN 1776, OFFICERS AND RANK AND FILE PRESENT AND FIT FOR DUTY, OR ON COMMAND. The following returns are from the volumes of the Fifth Series of American Archives: July, 1776. Monthly return of forces in South Carolina, vol. i., p. 632. September 27th. Return of Colonel William Smallwood's Maryland Regiment, vol. ii., p. 567. October 5th. Return of forces under Washington at Harlem Heights, vol. ii., p. 907. November 9th. Return of the forces in Northern Department under Gates, vol. iii., pp. 701, 702. December 1st. p. 1035. Return of forces under Washington at Trenton, vol. iii., December 22d. Return of the forces under Washington on the banks of the Delaware, vol. iii., pp. 1401, 1402. 5, 230 17. Jedediah Huntington, Ct. Oct. 9,896 II. Daniel Morgan. NORTH CAROLINA LINE: ..Nov. 9, 114 3. Elias Dayton... 4. Ephraim Martin. Nov. 9, 165 .Nov. 9, 277 5. Isaac Huger.. 6. Miles's Rifle Regiment...Oct. 5, German Regiment, Hau segger's (one half)......Dec.22, 197 1. Lachlan McIntosh.... CANADIAN REGIMENTS: These returns, complete for all the New England regiments, show a total number in the Continental Line from that section in the fall of 1776 of about 9500 men, or an average of 353 men to each of the twenty-seven New England regiments. The incomplete returns from the fifty-two regiments outside of New England show a total of 11,004 men in thirty-four regiments, an average of 323 men in each. There are no returns in the archives of the War Department from the remaining eighteen regiments, but estimating that they contained an average of 300 men each, or 5400 in all, it would give a total effective force of "Regulars" in the American Army, before the loss of Fort Washington, of about 26,000 men, of whom thirty-seven per cent. were from New England. In the collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania is a folio manuscript volume, Abstracts of Muster-Rolls, prepared by direction of Deputy Muster-Master-General William Bradford, Jr., which contains the names of the field officers and officers commanding companies, with the strength of each company and regiment. This invaluable book, the cover of which is largely composed of muster-rolls dated at Valley Forge, gives the musters for the months of June, July, August, September, and October of 1778, and January of 1779. The following is the muster for July of 1778, as it is in a more perfect condition than any of the others. PARTIAL ROSTER OF OFFICERS UNDER WASHINGTON, JULY, 1778. NORTH CAROLINA. First Regiment. - Colonel, Thomas Clark; Lieutenant-Colonel, Mabane; Major, Ashe; Captains, Tatum, Dixon, Bowman, Read, McRees, Moore; commissioned officers, 26; staff, 4; non-commissioned and privates, 658. Second Regiment.-Colonel, John Patten; Lieutenant-Colonel, Harney; Major, Murpee; Captains, Englis, Tenner, Coleman, Hall, Armstrong, Williams; commissioned officers, 27; staff, 5; non-commissioned and privates, 647. DELAWARE. Delaware Battalion. - Colonel, David Hall; Captains, Patten, Anderson, Leavmonth, Kirkwood, Jaquett; Lieutenants, Wilson, Powell, Rhodes; commissioned officers, 29; staff, 5; non-commissioned and privates, 351. AT LARGE. Lieutenant-Colonel, Aaron Burr; Captains, Tom, Sandford, Hallet; Lieutenants, Dove, Neely; commissioned officers, 11; staff, 5; non-commissioned and privates, 88. Major, William Harrison; Captains, Wikoff, Burrows, Forman, Combs ; commissioned officers, 6; staff, 2; non-commissioned and privates, 73. Colonel, Oliver Spencer; Captains, Broderick, Weatherby, Striker, Edsell, Pierson, Bommel; Lieutenants, Meiker, Ogden; commissioned officers, 14; staff, 4; non-commissioned and privates, 157. LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY NEW HAMPSHIRE. First Regiment. -Colonel, Joseph Cilley; Captains, Taswell, Scott, Fry, Hutcheson, Wail, House, Emmerson, Morrell; commissioned officers, 26; staff, 4; non-commissioned and privates, 476. Second Regiment. - Major, Benjamin Titcomb; Captains, Drew, Carr, Norris, Rowell, Clay, Blodgett, Robinson; Lieutenant, Hardy; commissioned officers, 27; staff, 3; non-commissioned and privates, 368. Third Regiment. - Colonel, Alexander Scammell; Captains, Livermore, Gray, Weiser, Fry, Stone, McClary, Bealls, Ellis; commissioned officers, 26; staff, 3; non-commissioned and privates, 333 Independent Corps.- Captain, Selir; commissioned officers, 5; noncommissioned and privates, 44. CONNECTICUT. First Regiment.-Colonel, Heman Swift; Captains, Woodbridge, Watson, Hill, Converse, Beardsley, Chapman, Hale, Steven; commissioned officers, 25; staff, 4; non-commissioned and privates, 398. Second Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel, Isaac Sherman; Captains, Parsons, Beebe, Manning, Hinkly, Betts, Walbridge, Mills, Parker; commissioned officers, 16; staff, 5; non-commissioned and privates, 289. Third Regiment. - Major, David Sill; Captains, Haney, Troop, Shumway, Ely, Perkins, Richards, Darrow, Home; commissioned officers, 23; staff, 5; non-commissioned and privates, 434. Fourth Regiment.-Colonel, Philip Bradley; Captains, Strong, Lacey, Wright, Sandford, Prior, Catlin, Childs, Harts; commissioned officers, 23; staff, 4; non-commissioned and privates, 386. Fifth Regiment. — Major, Joseph Hait; Captains, Monson, Brown, Rice, Brigham, Sandford, Smith, Comstock, Mattocks; commissioned officers, 21; staff, 4; non-commissioned and privates, 336. Sixth Regiment. - Colonel, John Durkee (two companies detached); Captains, Bacon, Fitch, McGuire, Lee, Webb, Bile, Hallam, Harmar; commissioned officers, 26; staff, 5; non-commissioned and privates, 348. NEW YORK. First Regiment.—Colonel, Gosen Van Schaick; Captains, Finch, Hicks, Sherwood, Hogkish, Copp, McCracky, Graham, Wendall; commissioned officers, 28; staff, 5; non-commissioned and privates, 454. Second Regiment. - Colonel, Philip Cortland; Captains, Wright, Ten Eyk, (late) Graham, Riker, (late) Hallet, Pell, Lounsbery; Lieutenant, French; commissioned officers, 23; staff, 4; non-commissioned and privates, 413. Fourth Regiment. - Colonel, Henry Livingston; Captains, Titus, Sackett, Gray, Strong, Smith, Walker, Davis; Lieutenant, Elsworth; commissioned officers, 20; staff, 4; non-commissioned and privates, 383. |