List of United States militia units in the American Revolutionary War

This is a list of American militia units that served on the Patriot side of the American Revolutionary War, listed by state.

Connecticut

 * see also Connecticut militia
 * Foot Guards:
 * 1st Company Governor's Foot Guard, 1771
 * 2nd Company Governor's Foot Guard, 1775
 * Horse Guards:
 * 1st Company Governor's Horse Guards,1778
 * 2nd Connecticut Light Horse, 1777
 * 5th Connecticut Light Horse, 1776–79
 * Backus' Regiment of Light Horse, 1776
 * Skinner's Regiment of Light Horse, 1776
 * Starr's Regiment of Light Horse, 1779
 * Seymour's Regiment of Light Dragoons
 * 1st Battalion State Regiment, 1776–77
 * 1st Regiment of Militia, 1778–79
 * 2nd Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * 3rd Regiment of Foot, 1775
 * 3rd Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * 4th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76
 * 5th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76
 * 7th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76
 * 8th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76
 * 8th Regiment of Militia, 1780
 * 9th Regiment of Militia, 1776–81
 * 10th Regiment of Militia, 1776–77
 * 11th Regiment of Militia, 1774
 * 12th Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * 13th Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * 16th Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * 18th Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * 20th Regiment of Militia, 1779–81
 * 21st Regiment of Militia, 1778–81
 * 22nd Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * 25th Regiment of Militia, 1776–78
 * 33rd Regiment of Militia, 1775
 * Belding's Regiment, 1777
 * Bradley's Regiment, 1776–77
 * Burrell's Regiment, 1776–77
 * Canfield's Regiment of Militia, 1781
 * Chapman's Regiment of Militia, 1778
 * Chester's Regiment of Militia, 1776–77
 * Cook's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Douglas' Regiment of Levies, 1776
 * Douglas' Regiment, 1776
 * Elmore's Battalion, 1776–77
 * Ely's Regiment, 1777
 * Enos' Regiment, 1776–77
 * Gallup's Regiment, 1779
 * Gay's Regiment, 1776
 * Hooker's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Johnson's Regiment of Militia, 1778
 * Latimer's Regiment of Militia, 1777–78
 * Lewis' Regiment, 1776
 * Mason's Regiment of Militia, 1778
 * McClellan's Regiment, 1777–82
 * Mead's Regiment of Militia, 1779
 * Mott's Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * Newberry's Regiment, 1777
 * Parker's Company of Teamsters, 1778
 * Parson's Regiment, 1776
 * Parson's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Porter's Regiment, 1781
 * Sage's Regiment, 1776–77
 * Silliman's Regiment, 1776
 * Talcott's Regiment, 1776
 * Thompson's Company
 * Thompson's Regiment, 1777
 * Tyler's Regiment, 1777
 * Ward's Regiment, 1777
 * Waterbury's Regiment, 1776–78
 * Whiting's Regiment, 1777
 * Wells' Regiment of Militia, 1779
 * Wells' Regiment, 1780–81
 * Wolcott's Regiment, 1776

Delaware

 * see also Delaware militia
 * 1st Battalion, New Castle County, 1777
 * 2nd Regiment, New Castle County, 1778–81
 * 2nd Battalion of Militia, 1776
 * 2nd Regiment of Militia, 1780
 * 7th Regiment of Militia, 1782
 * Flying Camp Battalion, 1776
 * Kent County Militia
 * Latimer's Independent Company, 1776

Georgia

 * see also Georgia militia
 * Emanuel's Regiment of Militia, 1781–82
 * Georgia Hussars, 1736
 * Liberty Independent Troop, 1776
 * 1st Brigade Georgia Militia
 * 1st Regiment Georgia Militia, Light Horse Troop

Maryland

 * see also Maryland militia
 * Gale's Independent Company of Artillery, 1779–80
 * Smith's Artillery, 2nd and 3rd Companies, 1783
 * 34th Battalion of Militia, 1776
 * 37th Battalion of Militia, 1777
 * Extraordinary Regiment, 1780
 * Flying Camp Regiment (Ewing's), 1776
 * Flying Camp Regiment (Griffith's), 1776
 * Flying Camp Regiment (Richardson's), 1776
 * Lansdale's Detachment, 1783
 * Marbury's Detachment, 1784
 * Washington County Militia Company, 1777

Massachusetts

 * see also Massachusetts militia
 * 1st Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * First Bristol Regiment, 1776–80 - Commanded by Col. Thomas Carpenter III 1776-1780, Regiment under Gen. Lincoln's command Nov. 1776, Brig. General Godfrey's Brigade 1779-1780
 * 1st Regiment of Guards, 1778
 * 3rd Regiment of Militia, 1779
 * 4th Regiment of Militia, 17787-80
 * 18th Regiment of Militia, 1775
 * 25th Regiment of Foot Massachusetts Militia, 1775
 * 32nd Regiment of Militia, 1775
 * Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, 1638
 * Ashley's Regiment of Militia, 1776–77
 * Bailey's Regiment of Militia
 * Brewer's Regiment, 1776
 * Brooks' Regiment of Militia, 1778
 * Bucks of America, 1781
 * Bullards' Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Burt's Company of Militia, 1776–77
 * Cady's Regiment, 1776
 * Carpenter's Regiment of Militia, See First Bristol Regiment
 * Cary's Regiment of Militia, 1780
 * Cary's Regiment, 1776
 * Cogswell's Regiment of Militia, 1775–77
 * Cushing's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Denny's Regiment of Militia
 * Fellows' Regiment, 1775
 * French's Regiment, 1777
 * Frye's Regiment, 1775
 * Gage's Regiment of Militia, 1777 aka the 4th Essex County Militia Regiment
 * Gerrish's Regiment, 1778
 * Gill's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Holman's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Independent Company of Cadets, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 1741 aka "First Corps of Cadets"
 * Jacob's Regiment, 1778–79
 * Johnson's Regiment of Militia, 1775–1777
 * Hyde's Detachment of Militia, 1777
 * Keyes' Regiment, 1777
 * Leonard's Regiment of Militia
 * May's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Murray's Regiment of Militia, 1780
 * Perce's Battalion of Militia, 1779
 * Plymouth Artillery Company organized January 7, 1777
 * Poor's Regiment of Militia, 1778
 * Porter's Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * Rand's Regiment of Levies, 1776
 * Reed's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Robinson Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Simonds' Regiment of Militia, 1776–77
 * Smith's Regiment of Foot, 1776
 * Sparhawk's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Stearns' Regiment of Militia, 1778
 * Storer's Regiment of Militia' 1777
 * Turner's Regiment, 1781
 * Wells' Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Whitney's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Williams' Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Wood's Regiment of Militia, 1778–79
 * Woodbridge's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Wright's Regiment of Militia, 1777

New Hampshire

 * see also New Hampshire militia
 * Baker's Company of Volunteer, 1777
 * Baldwin's Regiment, 1776
 * Bartlett's Regiment of Militia, 1780
 * Bedel's Militia Regiment, 1777–79
 * Bell's Regiment of Militia, 1781
 * Bellow's Regiment of Militia, 1776–77
 * Chase's Regiment of Militia, 1776–77
 * Dame's Regiment, 1779–80
 * Drake's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Evans' Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Fogg's Regiment, 1776–77
 * Gale's Regiment of Volunteers, 1778
 * Gerrish's Regiment, 1777
 * Gilman's Regiment of Militia, 1776–77
 * Hale's Regiment of Militia, 1776–78
 * Hobart's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Kelley's Regiment of Volunteers, 1777–78
 * Langdon's Company of Light Horse Volunteers, 1777–78
 * Lovewell's Regiment, 1778–81
 * McClary's Regiment of Militia, 1777–81
 * Mooney's Regiment of Militia, 1779–80
 * Moore's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Morey's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Moulton's Regiment of Militia, 1775–83
 * Nichols' Regiment of Militia, 1777–80
 * Peabody's New Hampshire State Regiment, 1778–79
 * Poor's Regiment, 1775
 * Reed's Regiment, 1775
 * Reynold's Regiment of Militia, 1781
 * Scott's Battalion, 1783
 * Senter's Regiment, 1777–78
 * Stark's Regiment, 1775
 * Stickney's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Tash's Regiment, 1776
 * Waldron's Regiment, 1776
 * Webster's Regiment, 1777–82
 * Welch's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Wingate's Regiment, 1776–78
 * Wyman's Regiment, 1776

New Jersey

 * see also New Jersey militia
 * 1st Regiment, Bergen County Militia, 1777–78
 * 1st Regiment, Essex County, 1777
 * 1st Battalion of Monmouth, 1777–82
 * 1st Battalion of Somerset, 1777–81
 * 2nd Regiment of Essex County Troop, 1778
 * 2nd Battalion of Hunterdon, 1777
 * 2nd Battalion of Middlesex, 1777
 * 2nd Battalion of Somerset, 1777–80
 * 3rd Battalion of Gloucester, 1777
 * 3rd Battalion of Middlesex, 1781
 * Borden' Regiment, Burlington County, 1776
 * Chambers' Regiment, Burlington County, 1776
 * Crane's Troops of Horse, 1780
 * Eastern Battalion, Morris County, 1777–78
 * Forman's Regiment of Militia, 1776–80
 * Hankinson's Regiment of Militia, 1777–79
 * Holmes' Battalion of Militia, Salem County, 1778
 * Hunt's Regiment, Burlington County, 1776
 * Martin's Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * Mehelm's Regiment, Burlington County, 1776
 * Newcomb's Regiment of Foot, 1776
 * Smith's Regiment, Burlington County, 1776
 * Shreve's Battalion, Burlington Militia
 * Randolph's Company, 1782
 * Reynolds' Regiment, Burlington County, 1776
 * Philip's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Seely's Regiment of Militia, 1777–81
 * Summer's Battalion of Militia, 1776
 * Thomas' Battalion of Essex Militia, 1776
 * Van Courtlandt's Battalion, 1776–80

New York

 * see also New York militia
 * 1st Battalion Grenadiers and Light Infantry, 1776
 * 1st Regiment of Levies, 1780–81
 * 2nd Regiment of Levies, 1776
 * 3rd Regiment of Levies, 1780–83
 * Allison's Regiment of Militia, 1775–78
 * Benedict's Regiment of Militia, 1780–81
 * Brinckerhoff's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Budd's Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * Campbell's Battalion of Militia, 1776–82
 * Cantine's Regiment of Militia Levies, 1778–79
 * Church's Regiment of Militia 1776
 * Clyde's Regiment of Militia, 1779–83
 * Cooper's Regiment
 * Crane's Regiment of Militia, 1779–81
 * Cuyler's Regiment of Militia, 1781–83
 * Drake's (Joseph) Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * Drake's (Samuel) Regiment of Militia, 1776–77
 * DuBois' Regiment of Levies, 1780
 * Field's Regiment of Militia, 1777–80
 * Fisher's Regiment of Militia (Third Tryon County militia), 1775–81
 * Freer's Regiment of Militia, 1777–79
 * Golden's Company of Militia, 1776
 * Graham's Regiment of Militia, 1777–79
 * Hamman's Regiment of Militia, 1777–82
 * Hardenburgh's Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * Harper's Regiment of Militia, 1779
 * Hasbrouck's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Hathorn's Regiment of Militia, 1777–81
 * Hay's Regiment of Militia, 1778–80
 * Hearts of Oak (New York militia), 1775
 * Hopkins' Regiment of Militia, 1779
 * Humphrey's Regiment of Militia, 1776–77
 * Jansen's Regiment of Militia, 1779–82
 * Lansing's Detachment of Militia, 1777
 * Livingston's Regiment of Militia, 1777–81
 * Ludington's Regiment of Militia, 1777–80
 * McClaughrey's Regiment of (Ulster County) Militia, 1776–81
 * McCrea's Regiment of Levies, 1779
 * Morrison co. Militia,1776
 * New York Provincial Company of Artillery, 1776
 * Nicholson's Regiment, 1776
 * Nicoll's Regiment of Levies, 1776
 * Palmer's Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * Pawling's Regiment of Levies and Militia, 1779–81
 * Pawling's Regiment of Militia, 1776–77
 * Poughkeepsie Invincibles, {4th Duchess County regiment, New York Militia}
 * Quackenbos' Regiment of Militia, 1779–80
 * Sacket's Westchester County Regiment, 1776
 * Schuyler's Regiment of Militia, 1781–82
 * Schuyler's Regiment of Albany County Militia, (Fifth Regiment of Albany County Militia)1777
 * Snyder's Regiment of Militia, (First Regiment of Ulster County Militia)1776-82
 * Swartwout's Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * Thomas' Battalion or Regiment of Militia, 1776–79
 * Tryon County militia
 * Van Alstyne's Regiment of Militia, 1777–81
 * Van Bergen's Regiment of Militia, 1777–80
 * Van Brunt's Regiment of Militia, 1776
 * Van Cortlandt's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Vandenbergh's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Vandenbergh's Regiment of Militia, 1778
 * Van Ness' Regiment of Militia, 1777–80
 * Van Rensselaer's Regiment, 1779–81
 * Van Schaick's Battalion, 1776
 * Van Schoonhoven's Regiment of Militia, 1778–82
 * Van Veghten's Regiment of Militia, 1779–80
 * Van Woert's Regiment of Militia, 1779–80
 * Vrooman's Regiment of Militia, 1779–83
 * Webster's Regiment of Militia, 1780–82
 * Weissenfels' Regiment of Levies, 1781–82
 * Wemple's Regiment of Militia, (2nd Albany County Militia Regiment) 1777-80
 * Whiting's Regiment of Militia, 1777–81
 * Willett's Regiment of Levies, 1781–83
 * Williams' Regiment of Militia, 1778–81
 * Woodhull's Regiment, 1776
 * Yate's Regiment of Militia, 1779–80

North Carolina

 * see also North Carolina militia
 * Collier's Regiment of Militia, 1780
 * Graham's Tryon County Regiment, 1776
 * Hillsborough District militia, 1776–1783
 * Lytle's Regiment of Levies (Caswell County), 1778
 * Seawell's Regiment of Militia, Pitt County, 1780

Pennsylvania

 * see also Pennsylvania militia
 * Artillery Battalion, Pennsylvania Militia 1747 {Artillery Batteries of the Associated Regiment of Foot of Philadelphia}
 * 1st Battalion Flying Camp, 1776
 * 1st Battalion of Bedford County Militia, 1777
 * 1st Battalion of Chester County Militia, 1776–77
 * 1st Battalion of Cumberland County Militia, 1776–77
 * 1st Regiment Flying Camp of Lancaster County, 1776
 * 1st Battalion of Philadelphia County Militia, 1776
 * 1st Battalion of Riflemen, Philadelphia County Militia, 1776
 * 1st Battalion of Westmoreland County Militia, 1777
 * 1st Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry, 1774
 * 2nd Regiment Flying Camp, 1776
 * 2nd Battalion of Cumberland County Militia, 1776
 * 2nd Battalion of Cumberland County Militia, 1777
 * 2nd Battalion of Northampton County Miliia, 1778
 * 2nd Battalion of Riflemen, Lancaster County, 1776–77
 * 2nd Battalion of Westmoreland County Militia, 1777
 * 3rd Battalion of Chester County Militia, 1776–77
 * 3rd Battalion of Cumberland County Militia, 1776
 * 3rd Battalion of Lancaster County Militia, 1776
 * 3rd Battalion of Northumberland County Militia, 1779
 * 3rd Battalion of Washington County Militia, 1779–83
 * 4th Battalion of Chester County Militia, 1776
 * 4th Battalion of Philadelphia County Militia, 1776 {aka 4th Battalion of Associators ?}
 * 5th Battalion of Chester County Militia, 1776
 * 5th Battalion of Cumberland County Militia, 1776
 * 5th Battalion of Philadelphia County Militia, 1776
 * 5th Battalion of York County Militia, 1777
 * Andrews' Battalion of York County Militia, 1777–78
 * Atlee's Musket Battalion, 1777
 * Baxter's Battalion Flying Camp, 1776
 * Barr's Detachment of Westmoreland County Militia, 1778
 * Clugage's Battalion, 1778
 * Burd's Battalion, 1776
 * Clotz' Battalion Flying Camp, Lancaster County, 1776
 * Duncan's Company of Volunteers (Pittsburgh), 1778
 * Enslow's Company of Bedford County Militia, 1782–83
 * Ferreis' Battalion of Militia (Lancaster County), 1776
 * Haller's Battalion Flying Camp, 1776
 * Hart's Battalion of Bucks County Militia, 1776
 * Matlack's Rifle Battalion, 1777
 * Miles' Rifle Regiment, 1776
 * Lochny's Battalion
 * Moorhead's Independent Company, 1777–79
 * Philadelphia Brigade of Militia, 1747 {Associated Regiment of Foot of Philadelphia/Associators of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia}
 * Philadelphia Light Horse Troop, 1780
 * Quaker Blues
 * Rankin's Regiment of York County Militia, 1777
 * Reed's Volunteer, 1780–81
 * Schott's Corps (Independent), 1778
 * Swope's Regiment Flying Camp, 1776–80
 * Watt's Regiment Flying Camp, 1776

Rhode Island

 * see also Rhode Island militia
 * 1st Battalion Providence County Militia, 1781
 * 2nd Battalion Providence County Militia, 1781
 * 15th Regiment of Rhode Island Militia, 1775
 * Arnold's Regiment of Pawtuxet Rangers, 1774
 * Artillery Company of Westerly, Charleston and Hopkinton, 1755
 * Babcock's Regiment of Militia, 1776–77
 * Bowen's Regiment of Militia, 1778
 * Bristol Train of Artillery, February 12, 1776
 * Cook's Regiment of Militia (Rhode Island), 1777
 * Crary's Regiment, 1777–79
 * Elliott's Regiment of Artillery, 1776–78
 * Kentish Guards, 1774
 * Kimball's Regiment of Militia, 1781
 * Lippitt's Regiment, 1776
 * Mathewson's Regiment, 1778
 * Miller's Regiment of Militia, 1778
 * Newport Artillery Company, 1741
 * North Providence Rangers, 1775
 * Noyes' Regiment of Militia, 1777–78
 * Olney's Regiment of Militia, 1781
 * Pawtuxet Rangers, 1774
 * Peck's Regiment, 1780–81
 * Potter's Regiment of Militia, 1781
 * Col. William Richmond's Regiment of State Troops in Continental service 1775-1777
 * Tillinghast's Regiment, 1781
 * Topham's Regiment, 1778–80
 * Waterman's Regiment, 1776–88

South Carolina

 * see also South Carolina militia
 * Charleston Battalion of Artillery, 1775–80
 * Casey's Regiment, 1782
 * Dutch Fork Militia, 1781–82
 * German Fusiliers of Charleston, 1775
 * Horse Guards, 1753

Vermont

 * see also Vermont militia
 * Green Mountain Boys, 1777
 * Herrick's Regiment, 1775–83
 * Marsh's Regiment, 1777

Virginia

 * see also Virginia militia
 * Culpeper Minutemen of 1775-1776
 * Dabney's State Legion
 * Frederick County Militia, 1777
 * Fluvanna County militia, 1781
 * Gaskin's Virginia Battalion, 1781
 * Illinois Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, 1783–84
 * Captain Johnson's Company of Mounted Militia of Augusta County 1780
 * Monongalia County Militia, 1777
 * Pendleton's Regiment of Militia, 1777
 * Taylor's Regiment of Militia (Albemarle County), 1779
 * Virginia Legion
 * Virginia State Regiment, 1775–83
 * Western Battalion, 1781–82