The following tables are from TEN CRUCIAL DAYS: Washington's Vision for Victory Unfolds by William L. Kidder (Knox Press) 2019 ©All Rights Reserved American Troops in South Jersey – December 25, 1776 Griffin’s Brigade, New Jersey Militia (Col. Samuel Griffin, Virginia) - 497 1st Cumberland County Regiment (Col. Silas Newcomb) 2nd Cumberland County Regiment (Col. David Potter) 1st Gloucester County Regiment (Col. Enos Seeley) 2nd Gloucester County Regiment (Col. Joseph Ellis) Captain Zephaniah Steelman, Forest Belanger, James Giberson 3rd Gloucester County Regiment (Col. Richard Somers) 1st Salem County Regiment (Col. Samuel Dick) 2nd Salem County Regiment (Col. John Holme) Virginia Artillery (2 companies) Source: Smith, Trenton, 29. ALL NEW JERSEY MILITIA REGIMENTS were in disarray in December 1776 due to structural changes made during the months of the New York campaign and the formation of the five-month levies, whose enlistments expired at the end of November. All these regiments should be considered as partial and commanding officers may not have been present. 1 British Troops at Trenton and Bordentown area on December 25, 1776 Trenton Rall’s Hessian Brigade (Col. Johann Rall) –1382 Rall Regiment (Lt. Col. Balthasar Brethauer) – 512 effective Major Johann Matthaeus, Captain Henrich Bocking, Lieutenant Colonel Batthas Brethauer, Captain Johann Brubach, Lieutenant Johann Sternickle Knyphausen Regiment (Maj. Friedrich Ludwig von Dechow) – 429 effective Major Friedrich von Dechow, Captain Friedrich von Biesenrodt, Lieutenant Andreas Wiederholdt, Henrich Kothe, Corporal Kustner Von Lossberg Regiment (Lt. Col. Francis Scheffer) – 345 Major Ludwig von Hanstein, Captain Ernst Altenbockum, Staff Captain Friedrich Wilhelm von Benning, Captain Emanuel von Wilmousky, Lieutenant George Christian Kimm, Lieutenant Jacob Piel, Lieutenant Ernst Schwabe, Second Lieutenant Georg Hermann Zoll, Ensign Friedrich Grabe, Ensign Christian von Hobe, Friedrich Hartmann, Kurt Mensing, Philip Obenhausen, Freidrich Wilhelm Oliva Jagers, 1 company (Capt. Friedrich von Grothausen) - 50 Lieutenant Friedrich von Grothausen, Corporal Franz Bauer 20 troops of the 16th Light Dragoons (Lt. Col. William Harcourt) Artillery – six 3-pounder guns (Lt. Friedrich Fischer and Lt. Johann Engelhardt) 2 guns with each regiment Burlington, Bordentown, and vicinity Donop’s Hessian Brigade (Col. Carl von Donop) - 1500 Bloch Grenadier Battalion (Lt. Col. Justus von Bloch) Minnegerode Grenadier Battalion (Lt. Col. Friedrich von Minnegerode) Linsing Grenadier Battalion (Lt. Col. Otto von Linsing) Field Jager Corps (Col. Carl von Donop) Capt. Johann Ewald 42nd Regiment of Foot (Royal Highland Regiment) (Lt. Col. Thomas Stirling) Artillery - 7 or 8 guns Source: Fischer, Washington’s Crossing, 394-396. 2 Troops with Washington – December 25, 1776 Brigadier William Alexander, Lord Stirling’s Brigade – 673 1st Virginia Regiment (Col. Isaac Read, Capt. John Fleming) – 185 Captain Graham, Lieutenant Abraham Kirkpatrick, Lieutenant Bartholomew Yates, Jonathan Grant Delaware Regiment (Col. John Haslet) – 108 Captain Thomas Holland 3rd Virginia Regiment (Col. George Weedon) – 181 Major Fleming, Captain John Chilton, Captain John Thornton, Captain William Washington, Lieutenant James Monroe, Sergeant Thomas McCarty Miles’ Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment (Maj. Ennion Williams) – 199 Captain John Marshall, Sergeant James McMichael, Cary McClelland Brigadier General Adam Stephen’s Brigade – 549 4th Virginia Regiment (Col. Thomas Elliott) – 229 Captain George Wallis, Ensign James Buxton, Ensign William Dennis Kelley 5th Virginia Regiment (Col. Charles Scott) – 129 Major George Johnston, Major Thompson, Captain Henry Fauntleroy, Ensign Robert Beale 6th Virginia Regiment (Col. Mordecai Buckner) – 191 Colonel Lawson, Major Richard Parker, Ensign James Barnett, George Blakey, William Montgomery Brigadier General Hugh Mercer’s Brigade – 838 Major John Armstrong, aide to Gen. Mercer 20th Continental (Connecticut) Regiment (Col. John Durkee) – 313 Sergeant Nathaniel Root Smallwood’s Maryland Regiment (Lt. Col. John Stone) – 163 Captain Maynard, Cornelius Wells 27th Continental (Massachusetts) Regiment (Col. Israel Hutchinson) – 115 Col. Philip Burr Bradley’s Battalion, Connecticut State Troops – 142 Philemon Baldwin Maryland & Virginia Rifle Battalion Volunteers (Capt. David Harris) – 105 2nd Maryland Regiment (Col. Stewart) John Boudy Brigadier General Matthias Alexis Roche de Fermoy’s Brigade – 638 1st Pennsylvania Rifle Regiment (Col. Edward Hand) – 254 Capt. Henry Miller, Jacob Bottomer, George Tilson German Battalion [4 MD and 4 PA companies] (Col. Nicholas Hausegger) – 374 Major Ludowick Weltner, Conrad Beam Colonel John Glover’s Brigade – 977 14th Continental (Massachusetts) Regiment (Marbleheaders) – (Col. John Glover) - 177 Captain William Blackler, Captain Theophilus Munson 3rd Continental (Massachusetts) Regiment (Col. Ebenezer Learned) - 217 John Dewey 19th Continental (Connecticut) Regiment (Col. Charles Webb) - 216 Captain William Hull, Lieutenant Elisha Bostwick 23rd Continental (Massachusetts) Regiment (Col. John Bailey) - 146 26th Continental (Massachusetts) Regiment (Col. Loammi Baldwin) - 221 Moses Smith Colonel Paul Dudley Sargent’s Brigade – 827 16th Continental (Massachusetts) Regiment (Col. Paul Dudley Sargent) - 152 Oliver Corey, Jacob Francis, David How, Ebenezer White Col. Andrew Ward’s Continental (Connecticut) Regiment - 157 6th Battalion, Connecticut State Troops (Col. John Chester) - 260 13th Continental (Massachusetts) Regiment (Col. Joseph Read) - 122 Captain Oliver Pond, Christopher Burlingame 1st New York Continental Regiment (Capt John Johnston) - 56 3rd New York Continental Regiment (Lt. Col. Baron Friedrich von Weisenfels) - 80 Brigadier General Arthur St. Clair’s Brigade – 500 5th Continental Regiment (formerly 1st New Hampshire) (Col. John Stark) William Chamberlin 8th Continental Regiment (formerly 2nd New Hampshire) (Col. Enoch Poor) 2nd Continental Regiment (formerly 3rd New Hampshire) (Lt. Col. Israel Gilman) 15th Continental (Massachusetts) Regiment (all field officers absent) Rev. David Avery, Sergeant Madden, John Greenwood 3 Colonel Henry Knox’s Regiment of Continental Artillery – 418 New York Company of Continental Artillery (Capt. Sebastian Baumann) 3 guns - 85 Massachusetts Company of Continental Artillery (Capt. Lt. Winthrop Sargent) 2 guns – 55 Lt. Samuel Shaw New York State Company of Artillery (Capt. Alexander Hamilton) 2 guns – 36 Eastern Company, New Jersey State Artillery (Capt. Daniel Neil) 2 guns – 63 Western Company, New Jersey State Artillery (Capt. Samuel Hugg) 2 guns – 55 Hosea Husted 2nd Company, Pennsylvania State Artillery (Capt. Thomas Forrest) 2 brass mounted 6-pounders – 52 Lieutenant Patrick Duffy, Sergeant Joseph White 2nd Company of Artillery, Philadelphia Associators (Capt. Joseph Moulder) 3 guns – 85 Second Lieutenant Anthony Cuthbert, Sergeant Godfrey, Zebulon Applegate Captain John Flahaven’s recruiting company of the 1777 First New Jersey Regiment - Flahaven had been commissioned December 15, 1776 and had about 40 men. First Troop Philadelphia Light horse Captain Samuel Morris, Cornet John Dunlap, Corporal James Hunter First Hunterdon County Militia Regiment - men detailed to be guides on the night march to Trenton - c25 Captain John Mott, Individuals from disbanded Continental regiments from Fort Ticonderoga Captain John Polehemus, Individual local Pennsylvania and New Jersey militiamen caught in the confusion of the time and not connected with their normal companies. John Burrowes, 4 American Troops near Trenton Ferry – December 25, 1776 Ewing’s Brigade, Pennsylvania Militia of the Flying Camp – 826 Cumberland County Regiment (Col. Frederick Watts) Lancaster County Regiment (Col. Jacob Klotz) Cumberland County Regiment (Col. William Montgomery) York County Regiment (Col. Richard McCallister) Chester County Regiment (Col. James Moore??) Colonel Evans, Major Bell, Captain Thomas Strawbridge, Hugh Coppell, William Hutchinson, David Jackson, James Johnston, William McCracken Bucks County Regiment (Col. Joseph Hart) (Colonels Watts, Montgomery, and McCallister were captured at Fort Washington and were prisoners in New York. Captain Jehu Eyre’s Pennsylvania militia artillery company - 67 Dickinson’s Brigade (Brig. Gen. Philemon Dickson) – 500 1st Burlington County Militia Regiment (Col. Joseph Borden) 2nd Burlington County Militia Regiment (Lt. Col. Thomas Reynolds) 1st Hunterdon County Militia Regiment (Col. Isaac Smith) Lt.Col Abraham Hunt, Major Joseph Phillips, Captain Joseph Brearley, Captain John Mott, Captain Benjamin Van Cleve, First Lieutenant Elias Hunt, James B. Green, Levy Hart, David Lanning, Joab Mershon, Titus Mershon, William Morris, Elias Phillips, John Phillips, John Stevens 2nd Hunterdon County Militia Regiment (Col. Nathaniel Hunt) 3rd Hunterdon County Militia Regiment (Col. David Chambers) 4th Hunterdon County Militia Regiment (Col. John Mehelm) Small units of militia from other counties Source: ALL NEW JERSEY MILITIA REGIMENTS were in disarray in December 1776 due to structural changes during the months of the New York campaign and the formation of the five-month levies whose enlistments expired at the end of November. All these regiments should be considered as partial and commanding officers may not have been present. 5 American Troops at Bristol – December 25, 1776 Cadwalader’s Brigade, Pennsylvania Associators (Colonel John Cadwalader) – 1500 Morgan’s Regiment, 1st Battalion Philadelphia Militia