My ancestor who was 70 years old at the Battle of Bunker Hill was with no unit. He came 40 miles with his son to blast the British -son was in no unit. Their in-law Prescott was the only member of the family in a military unit.
My 7 ancestors at the Battle of Saratoga II were farmers with no units-= They just rushed to Saratoga with their pitchforks and muskets coz they heard they Johnny was stuck in a rut and his Hessians rear guards got their butts beat by ragtags.
My ancestors who were seniors picked off the British on their way back from Concord on road ambushes- they were with no military units, just farmers who could make a squirrel lose his nuts at 200 yards `n nothin else.
Better go `n read your genealogies and family bibles and them DAR books.
I have one of those trouble making ancestors in a guy named Ethan Allen.
That’s all very cool. There were certainly a lot of folk who lived out in the sticks and therefore didn’t practice with the organized militia units in the New England towns. A lot of them just showed up at Concord, Bunker Hill, and Saratoga and augmented the firepower of the organized militia and Continentals. Still that doesn’t make the unorganized folk an army, nor change the fact that there was an army to glom onto. The Revolution wasn’t just a spontaneous uprising, it took a lot of hard work and organization to make it happen.