Perhaps the biggest factor of militia resistance to recruitment into the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War was the militia troops’ “small-producers” creed, which also impacted their religious economic, and political beliefs, as being self-sufficient (Moreland & Terrar, 2010). A large number of the population were farmers, who lived off the land and had very little to gain from war or any other incentives to join the Continental Army. They used their militias only to protect themselves when needed. The most common documented resistance to the regular army was a “refusal to enlist in the Continental Army and a refusal by militia companies to subordinate themselves to, or cooperate with, the regulars on issues such as tactics, supplies,
