The 3rd New York Regiment was authorized May 25, 1775, and organized from June 28 to August 4 from the counties of Ulster, Dutchess, Orange, and Suffolk under the command of Colonel James Clinton for five months service in Canada.
[3] The regiment was reraised between February and May 1776 at Albany, New York, for service with the Continental Army under Colonel Rudolphus Ritzema.
The 3rd New York was part Alexander McDougal's brigade defending Chatterton Hill.
The regiment would see action in the Invasion of Canada, New York Campaign, Fort Stanwix.
During the winter of 1779 - 1780 it encamped with the New York Brigade at Morristown, New Jersey, where it took part in a raid on Staten Island.