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|dates=1775-1783
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|battles=[[Battle of Bunker Hill|Bunker Hill]], [[Battle of Saratoga|Saratoga]]
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The '''3rd Massachusetts Regiment''' also known as the '''24th Continental Regiment''', '''Heath's Regiment''', and '''Greaton's Regiment''', was raised on April 23, 1775, under Colonel [[William Heath]] outside [[Boston, Massachusetts]].  When Heath was promoted to brigadier general in June 1775 the regiment came under the command of Colonel John Greaton. The regiment would see action at the [[Battle of Bunker Hill]], [[Battle of Trois-Rivières]], [[Battle of Valcour Island]] and the [[Battle of Saratoga]]. The regiment was disbanded, on November 3, 1783, at [[West Point, New York]]. Lineage carried on by the [[U.S. 104th Infantry Regiment]].

==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20100608052735/http://www.history.army.mil/reference/revbib/mass.htm Bibliography of the Continental Army in Massachusetts] compiled by the [[United States Army Center of Military History]]

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