The regiment was organized on 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. The revolutionary Rhode Island Assembly authorized the regiment on as part of the Rhode Island Army of Observation. The 1st Rhode Island was initially formed by the Colonial government before being taken into the Continental army. Regimental history Varnum's Regiment (1775) It is regarded by some as the first black military unit, because all the enlistees were non-white. However, there were also some Native Americans. It became known as the "Black Regiment" because it was composed mostly of black enlistees. The unit went through several reorganizations and name changes, like most regiments of the Continental Army. It was one of the few units in the Continental Army to serve through the entire war, from the siege of Boston to the disbanding of the Continental Army on November 3, 1783. The 1st Rhode Island Regiment (also known as Varnum's Regiment, the 9th Continental Regiment, the Black Regiment, the Rhode Island Regiment, and Olney's Battalion) was a regiment in the Continental Army raised in Rhode Island during the American Revolutionary War (1775–83).
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