• Authorized on January 22, 1777 in the Continental Army as Capt. Samual Morehead's Independent Company, an element of the Middle Department.
• Organized in spring 1777 at Kittanning to consist of 8 companies from Westmoreland County.
• Relieved on April 9, 1777 from the Middle Department and assigned to the Western Department.
• Consolidated on July 1, 1778 with the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment.

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

• Delaware 1777