7th Continental Regiment

Prescott's Regiment 7th Continental Regiment
Active	1775-1777
Allegiance	Continental Congress of the United States
Type	Infantry
Part of	Continental Army
Engagements	Siege of Boston, New York
Commanders
Notable commanders	Colonel William Prescott

American Revolutionary War units of the United States

Continental Army List of Continental units

Units by state	Connecticut Delaware Georgia Maryland Massachusetts New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina Vermont Virginia

Non-state units	Extra and Additional regiments Armand's Legion Pulaski's Legion Lee's Legion Ottendorf's Corps Commander-in-Chief's Guard

State militia List of state units

The 7th Continental Regiment, also known as Prescott's Regiment, was raised April 23, 1775 as a Massachusetts militia regiment at Cambridge, Massachusetts under Colonel William Prescott. The regiment would join the Continental Army in June 1775. The regiment saw action during the Siege of Boston and the New York Campaign. On January 1, 1777 the regiment was disbanded and volunteers from the regiment joined the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment.

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

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