Porter's Regiment of Militia

Porter's Regiment
Active	1776-1777
Allegiance	Continental Congress of the United States
Type	Infantry
Part of	Massachusetts militia
Engagements	Battle of Trois-Rivières

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Porter's Regiment was a militia regiment raised on January 19, 1776 under Colonel Porter at Northampton, Massachusetts and Pittsfield, Massachusetts for one year of service. The regiment would see action during the Invasion of Canada. The regiment was disbanded on January 1, 1777 at Morristown, New Jersey.

External links

Bibliography of the Continental Army in Massachusetts compiled by the United States Army Center of Military History

The Massachusetts Line and Militia in the American Revolutionary War

1775 named units	Ward's Thomas'/Bailey's Walker's Cotton's Whitcomb's Read's Mansfield's Danielson's Prescott's Frye's Bridge's Paterson's Scammon's Learned's Gardner's/Bond's Nixon's Fellows' Doolittle's J. Brewer's D. Brewer's Heath's/Greaton's Woodbridge's Glover's (Marblehead) Little's Gerrish's Phinney's Sargent's

1776 "Continental" units	3rd 4th 6th 7th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th 18th 21st 23rd 24th 25th 26th 27th

1777 "Massachusetts" units	1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th 15th 16th

Other Massachusetts-related Continental units	Continental Artillery Regiment Henley's Additional Continental Regiment Lee's Additional Continental Regiment Jackson's Additional Continental Regiment 1st American Regiment (1783–1784)

Major generals	Artemas Ward John Thomas William Heath Benjamin Lincoln Henry Knox John Paterson

Brigadier generals	Joseph Frye Ebenezer Learned John Glover John Nixon Rufus Putnam Henry Jackson Michael Jackson Benjamin Tupper

Militia units	Ashley's Bucks of America Bullard's Cogswell's Cushing's Gage's Gill's Holman's Johnson's Porter's

The Continental Army, Richard Wright - see page 59

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