1st New York Regiment

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1st New York Regiment
Active	1775-1783
Allegiance	Continental Congress of the United States
Type	Infantry
Part of	New York Line
Engagements	Invasion of Canada, Battle of Valcour Island, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Monmouth, the Sullivan Expedition Battle of Yorktown.
Commanders
Notable commanders	Colonel Alexander McDougall Colonel Rudolphus Ritzema Colonel Goose Van Schaick

Canadian theater, 1775–1776 Ticonderoga – Crown Point – Longue-Pointe – Fort St. Jean – Quebec – Les Cèdres – Vaudreuil – Trois-Rivières – Valcour Bay – Fort Cumberland

Saratoga campaign, 1777 Ticonderoga – Hubbardton – Fort Ann – Oriskany – Bennington – 1st Saratoga (Freeman's Farm) – 2nd Saratoga (Bemis Heights)

Philadelphia campaign, 1777–1778 Brandywine – Paoli – Germantown – White Marsh – Matson's Ford – Crooked Billet – Monmouth

Northern theater after Saratoga, 1778–1781 Rhode Island – Wyoming Valley – Carleton's Raid – Cherry Valley – Stony Point – Penobscot expedition – Sullivan expedition – Newtown – Springfield – Groton Heights

Southern theater Participation, 1781 Yorktown

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The 1st New York Regiment was authorized on May 25, 1775 and organized at New York City from June 28 to August 4, for service with the Continental Army under the command of Colonel Alexander McDougall.^[1] The enlistments of the first establishment ended on December 31, 1775.^[2]

The second establishment of the regiment was authorized on January 19, 1776.^[3]

The regiment would see action in the Invasion of Canada, Battle of Valcour Island, Battle of Saratoga, Battle of Monmouth, the Sullivan Expedition and the Battle of Yorktown. The regiment would be furloughed June 2, 1783 at Newburgh, New York and disbanded November 15, 1783.

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• 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