Maryland Line

The "Maryland Line" was a formation within the Continental Army, formed and authorized by the Second Continental Congress, meeting in the "Old Pennsylvania State House" (later known as "Independence Hall") in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in June 1775.

These "dictatorial powers" included the authority to recruit and raise sixteen additional Continental infantry regiments at large.

Forman's, Gist's, Grayson's, and Hartley's Regiments were partially drawn from Maryland.

[1] Other Continental infantry regiments and smaller units, also unrelated to a state quota, were raised as needed for special or temporary service.

Officers of the Continental Army below the rank of brigadier general were ordinarily ineligible for promotion except in the line of their own state.