13th Continental Regiment

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Read's Regiment
13th Continental Regiment

Regiment re-enactors at the 2023 Gaspee Days Parade in Rhode Island

Active| 1775–1777
Allegiance| Continental Congress of the United States, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Branch| Infantry
Size| Regiment
Part of| Massachusetts Line
Engagements| American Revolutionary War

* Siege of Boston
* New York campaign
* Battle of Trenton

Commanders
Notable
commanders| Joseph Read

Military unit

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* Continental Army
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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 13th Continental Regiment, also known as Read's Regiment, was raised April 23, 1775, as a Massachusetts militia regiment at Cambridge, Massachusetts, under Joseph Read. The regiment would join the Continental Army in June 1775. The regiment saw action during the Siege of Boston, the New York Campaign and the Battle of Trenton. The regiment was disbanded on January 1, 1777, at Morristown, New Jersey.

Col Timothy Walker Minutemen Regiment-1775

3rd Regiment, Provincial Army April-July 1775

22nd Regiment, Army of the United Colonies July - Dec 1775

13th Regiment, Continental Army -Jan 19 ,1776

source -https://www.amazon.com/General-Wards-Colonial-Keith-Brough/dp/1517446260

## External links

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* Bibliography of the Continental Army in Massachusetts compiled by the United States Army Center of Military History

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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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