The company of 130 riflemen from western Maryland to the lines at Roxbury (Cambridge) opposite to Boston Massachusetts and remained there for one year. June 17, 1776 the company was re-organized into the Maryland & Virginia Rifle Regiment as part of the Continental Army. November 16, 1776, the regiment was captured after the defense of Fort Tryon, part of the outer works of Fort Washington. Rawlings was wounded during this action in the leg. He turned over command during the battle to his second, Otho Holland Williams, who was wounded slightly along with approximately 40 others of the regiment. March 21, 1779, re-organized as Rawlings' Independent Corps (a.k.a. The Maryland Corps), relieved from the Main Continental Army and assigned to the Western Department. According to Wright, Rawlings' Independent Corps was disbanded on January 1, 1781 at Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania. The letter from Col. Brodhead however contradicts Wright.