Certifications of various individuals' unfitness to serve in the militia and printed notices of their assignments to the companies of the Baltimore-based Twenty-seventy Regiment. These notices also include a listing of parade dates and corresponding court-martial hearings to try these men who were absent from the parades.

At the end of the Revolutionary War, Maryland had five full regiments in regular service, many of whose men were converted into militia. The Maryland militia became the present-day Maryland National Guard in 1867 by act of the state legislature.

For more information concerning the history of Maryland's militia see Hanson Hiss, "The Maryland National Guard," Outing Magazine 20 (May and June 1892): 149-54, 217-23.