”WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE.

…On the 1st of January, 1776, the convention resolved to raise at once a force of one thousand four hundred and forty-four men, eight companies of which were to be formed into a battalion, and commanded by Col. William Smallwood, Lieut. Col. Francis Ware, …”

Reference Data:

History of Baltimore City and County, by John Thomas Scharf, 1881, page 72