8th Massachusetts Regiment
de Kalb’s Division |
Learned’s Brigade |
8th Massachusetts Regiment
History
Organized Summer 1775 at Cambridge from Essex, Bristol, Middesex, Plymouth, Worchester, Suffolk and Hampshire Counties Of Massachussets, and the Hillsborough and Cheshire Counties of New Hampshire.
Entered Valley Forge with 368 assigned 236 fit for duty.
Left Valley Forge with 335 asssigned, 183 fit for duty.
Previous Engagements: Siege of Boston, New York City, Northern New Jersey, Trenton-Princeton, Saratoga, Defense of Philadelphia, Philadelphia-Monmouth
Field Officers
- Colonel Michael Jackson
- Lt. Colonel John Brooks
- Major William Hull
Company Commanders
- Captain James Bancroft
- Captain John Burnham
- Captain Ebenezer Cleaveland
- Captain Ephraim Cleaveland
- Captain James Keith
- Captain James Varnum
- Captain John Wiley
- Captain Benjamin Brown
Regimental Staff
- Quartermaster John Sawyer
- Adjutant Jonathan Allen
- Paymaster Simon Jackson
- Surgeon Walter Hastings
- Surgeon’s Mate Calvin Scott
- Quartermaster Sergeant Michael Jackson
- Sergeant Major Samuel Blazdell
- Drum Major Henry Woods
- Fife Major Thomas Lawrence
