3rd New Jersey Regiment
Maxwell’s Brigade |
3rd New Jersey Regiment
History
Organized May 1776 at Elizabethtown.
Entered Valley Forge with 257 men assigned and 204 fit for duty.
Left Valley Forge in May 1778 with 378 assigned 294 fit for duty.
Previous engagements: Lake Champlain, Northern New Jersey, New York 1777, Defense of Philadelphia, Philadelphia-Monmouth
Field Officers
- Colonel Elias Dayton
- Lt. Colonel Francis Barber
- Major John Bloomfield
Company Commanders
- Captain Jeremiah Ballard
- Captain Joseph J. Anderson
- Captain William Gifford
- Captain Richard Cox
- Captain Cornelius Hennion
- Captain John Mott
- Captain Thomas Patterson
- Captain John Ross
Regimental Staff
- Chaplain Andrew Huntere
- Quartermaster Aaron Day
- Quartermaster Joseph Pereian
- Adjutant Samuel Shippard
- Paymaster Jonathan Dayton
- Surgeon Lewis F Dusham
- Surgeon’s Mate Ephraim Loring
- Quartermaster Sergeant William Love
- Sergeant Major John Howe
- Drum Major Maurice Wooten
- Fife Major Jabez Bigelow
