1st Rhode Island Regiment
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The 1st Rhode Island Regiment was a regiment in the Continental Army raised in Rhode Island during the American Revolutionary War. It was one of the few units in the Continental Army to serve through
A 1781 watercolor of a black infantryman of the 1st Rhode Island Regiment of the Continental Army at the Yorktown Campaign. The 1st Rhode Island was one of the few Continental Army regiments with many black soldiers.
A Black soldier's pay slip for service to the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War
Pines Bridge Monument in Yorktown Heights
Greene-Flagg burial place marker (center) and Monument to the 1st Rhode Island Regiment (lower right)
James Mitchell Varnum
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James Mitchell Varnum was an American legislator, lawyer, general in the Continental Army, and a pioneer to the Ohio Country. Varnum resigned his commission in 1779, and was a delegate to the Continen
1st Rhode Island Regiment
…authorized the regiment on May 6, 1775, as part of the Rhode Island Army of Observation. The regiment was organized on May 8, 1775, under Colonel James Mitchell Varnum and was therefore often known as "Varnum's Regiment." It originally consisted of eight companies of volunteers from Kent and Kings Counties. Varnum…
Portrait by Charles Willson Peale, 1804
Varnum marker in Oak Grove Cemetery in Marietta, Ohio
Varnum's house at 57 Peirce Street in East Greenwich, Rhode Island