7th Massachusetts Regiment

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7th Massachusetts Regiment
Active	1776-1783
Allegiance	Continental Congress of the United States
Type	Infantry
Part of	Massachusetts Line
Engagements	Saratoga
Commanders
Notable commanders	Colonel Ichabod Alden, Colonel John Brooks, Lt. Col. William Stacy

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

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

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The 7th Massachusetts Regiment was constituted on September 16, 1776 under Colonel Alden in the Continental Army and was organized as seven companies of volunteers from Worcester, Middlesex, Essex, York, Cumberland, Hampshire, Lincoln, and Suffolk Counties of the colony of Massachusetts and Mayhew's Company, 25th Continental Regiment during the spring of 1776. The regiment was assigned to the Northern Department on 9 February 1777. It was re-assigned to the Highland's Department on 13 March 1777 and on 12 June 1777 it was assigned to 2d Massachusetts Brigadeand three days later, 15 June 1777 it was re-assigned to the 1st Massachusetts Brigade. The brigade was re-assigned to the Northern Department on 1 July 1777 and the regiment was relieved from the brigade on 31 March 1778. The regiment re-organized to nine companies on 25 September 1778 and re-assigned to the Northern Department on 14 June 1779. The regiment was re-assigned to the New Hampshire Brigade of the main Continental Army on 23 August 1779. On 14 November 1779 the regiment was re-assigned to the 3d Massachusetts Brigade in the Highland's Department. On 1 January 1781 the regiment was re-assigned to the 1st Massachusetts Brigade. The regiment was furloughed on 12 June 1783 at West Point, New York and disbanded on 15 November 1783.

The regiment would see action at the Battle of Saratoga and the Sullivan Expedition.

[edit] References

• Wright, Richard K. [1983]. "Lineage", The Continental Army (HTML), Center of Military History. Retrieved on June 26. 
• The Revolutionary War American Units. Retrieved on 26 June 2006.