Unit
Lineage of The First New Hampshire Regiment
{From
The Continental Army, Robert K Wright, Center of Military History,
United States
Army, Washington, DC., 1989, Page 197}
Authorized
22 May 1775 in the New Hampshire State Troops as the 1st
New Hampshire
Regiment. Organized 3 June 1775 at Medford, Massachusetts, to consist of ten
companies from Hillsborough and Rockingham Counties.
Adopted 14
June 1775 into the Continental Army and assigned to the
Main Army.
Assigned 22 July 1775 to Sullivan's Brigade, an element
of the Main
Army.
Reorganized
and redesignated 1 January 1776 as the 5th Continental
Regiment, to
consist of eight companies.
Relieved 27
April 1776 from Sullivan's Brigade and assigned to the Canadian Department.
Relieved 2
July 1776 from the Canadian Department and assigned to the Northern Department.
Assigned 20
July 1776 to Stark's Brigade, an element of the Northern Department.
Relieved 26
November 1776 from Stark's Brigade and assigned to the Main Army (later to
Sullivan's Brigade).
Reorganized
and redesignated 1 January 1777 as the 1st New Hampshire
Regiment, to
consist of eight companies.
Relieved 14
February 1777 from Sullivan's Brigade and assigned to the Northern Department.
Assigned 28
April 1777 to the New Hampshire Brigade, an element of the Northern Department.
(New Hampshire
Brigade relieved 20 October 1777 from the Northern Department and assigned
to the Main Army.)
Reorganized
23 December 1778 to consist of nine companies.
(New Hampshire
Brigade relieved 19 August 1781 from the Main Army
and assigned
to the Highlands Department; relieved 10-14 October 1781
from the Highlands
Department and assigned to the Northern Department;
relieved 12
November 1782 from the Northern Department and assigned
to the Main
Army.)
Reorganized
and redesignated 1 March 1783 as the New Hampshire Regiment, to consist of
nine companies. Consolidated 22 June 1783 with the New Hampshire Battalion
(formerly 2nd NH Regt.) and consolidated unit designated as the New
Hampshire Battalion to consist of five companies.
Disbanded 1 January 1784 at New Windsor,
NY.
Engagements:
Siege of Boston
Defense of
Canada
Lake Champlain
Trenton - Princeton
Saratoga
Philadelphia
- Monmouth
Iroquois 1779
Northern Department
1781
Yorktown (Light
Infantry Co. Only)
