• Authorized on July 16, 1776 in the Continental Army as Capt. John Doyle's Independent Rifle Company.
• Organized on September 5, 1776 at Lancaster with recruits from central Pennsylvania and assigned to the Main Continental Army.
• Disbanded on July 1, 1778 at White Plains, New York.

Lineage taken from "The Continental Army" by Robert K Wright

• Northern New Jersey
• Defense of Philadelphia
• Philadelphia - Monmouth