Authorized 8 January 1776 in the Continental Army as a regiment to be raised from the troops in service in Canada and assigned to the Canadian Department. Organized 15 April 1776 at Quebec, Canada, as Elmore's Regiment, to consist of eight companies, primarily from Connecticut. Reassigned 2 July 1776 from the Canadian Department and assigned to the Northern Department. Colonel Samuel Elmore's Regiment was raised under authority of the Continental Congress, to serve for one year from April, 1776, and credited to Connecticut. Elmore and most of his company officers recruited their men in Connecticut and to some extent from the regiments that served in the North. The regiment took the field in July, '76, under Schuyler, and on August 25th marched from Albany "into Tryon County." During the remainder of its term, it was posted at Ft. Stanwix and vicinity and disbanded in May 1777 at Fort Schuyler, New York.