Continental Troops in Northern Department

26 July 1777

Commanding Officer: Genral Philip Schuyler

Nixon's Brigade (89/145/15/853)1

(organization as of November 1776)
4th (Massachusetts) Continental Regiment
9th (Rhode Island) Continental Regiment
11th (Rhode Island) Continental Regiment
12th (Massachusetts) Continental Regiment
2nd Rhode Island Militia
De Fermoy's Brigade (57/96/12/524)
(organization as of December 1776)
1st (Pennsylvania) Continental Regiment
German Battalion
Poor's Brigade (51/94/11/542)
(organization as of December 1777)
1st New Hampshire Regiment
2nd New Hampshire Regiment
3rd New Hampshire Regiment
2nd New York Regiment
4th New York Regiment
Paterson's Brigade (79/95/14/528)
(organization as of December 1777)
10th Massachusetts Regiment
11th Massachusetts Regiment
12th Massachusetts Regiment
14th Massachusetts Regiment
Learned's Brigade (51/70/8/550)
(organization as of December 1777)
2nd Massachusetts Regiment
8th Massachusetts Regiment
9th Massachusetts Regiment

The source document provides only brigade strengths. The organiza-

tions shown are from other dates and are the known organization of
the period closest to the period of the return. They should not,
therefore, be taken as the known organization, but merely as an
educated guess.

Lesser,C.H., The Sinews of Independence, Monthly Strength Reports of

the Continental Army, 1976, Chicago, IL, University of Chicago Press

Copyright GFN 1993

1
Numbers are officers, NCOs, staff officers, and rank & file present under arms.