Scope and Content: The adjutant general of the Commonwealth, as executive administrator of the state’s Military Establishment, has been responsible for maintaining and reporting data concerning militia strength.  During the Civil War these activities were intensified, particularly as they related to fulfillment of municipal recruitment quotas and determinations of entitlement to state aid and bounties.  This index records Massachusetts servicemen enlisting in the U.S. Navy.  It was created to index payrolls that detail bounty payments made to naval personnel (St 1864, c 143, s 3; c 211, s 2).
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by surname
Notes: Although the adjutant general had responsibility for militia pay records before, during, and after the Civil War, including this series, from Dec. l864 (pursuant to General Order 51) such records were in the specific custody of the paymaster general until that office lapsed in 1866. A typed note attached to the front flyleaf, probably prepared by Frederick W. Cross, military archivist, provides historical background on the creation of the series.  A note from the Office of Paymaster of State Bounties is affixed to the first page
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