3rd New York Regiment

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unit_name=3rd New York Regiment


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allegiance=Continental Congress of the United States
type= Infantry
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dates=1775-1780
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command_structure=New York Line
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battles=New York
the Sullivan Expedition
notable_commanders=Colonel James Clinton,
Colonel Rudolphus Ritzema
Colonel Peter Gansevoort
anniversaries=Campaign
name=New York and New Jersey, 1776–1777
battles=Long Island – Kip's Bay – Harlem Heights – Pell's Point – White Plains – Fort Washington – 1st Trenton – 2nd Trenton – Princeton – Forage War – Bound Brook

The 3rd New York Regiment was authorized May 25 1775 and organized from June 28 to August 4 from the counties of Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, and Suffolk under the command of Colonel James Clinton for five months service in Canada. [Wright, pg. 41] The enlistments of the first establishment ended on December 31 1775. [Fernow, pg. 11] .

The second establishment of the regiment was authorized on January 19 1776. [Wright, pg. 60] The regiment was reraised between February and May 1776 at Albany, New York for service with the Continental Army under Colonel Rudolphus Ritzema.

The regiment was raised for the third time in December, 1776 under the command of Peter Gansevoort.

The regiment would see action in the Invasion of Canada, New York Campaign, Fort Stanwix. It was relieved from Fort Stanwix in November, 1778 and took part in the Sullivan Expedition. During the winter of 1779 - 1780 it encamped with the New York Brigade at Morristown, New Jersey where it took part in a raid on Staten Island. The regiment was merged into the 1st New York Regiment, on January 1 1781.

Footnotes

References

* Fernow, Berthold, "New York in the Revolution", 1887
* Heitman, Francis B., "Historical Register of Officers of the Continental Army during the War of the Revolution. New, enlarged, and revised edition.", Washington, D.C.: Rare Book Shop Publishing Company, 1914
* Wright, Robert, "The Continental Army", 1983

External links

* Service History: http://www.nyhistory.net/~drums/3rdNYhistory.htm