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 and after the Civil War these activities were intensified, particularly as they related to fulfillment of municipal recruitment quotas and determinations of entitlement to state aid, bounties, and other benefits.  These payroll sheets, the authority document by which payment was made, record bounty payments to individual soldiers who, in turn, acknowledged receipt of payment by signing the sheet.
Arrangement: Arranged by roll no., thereunder chronologically
Notes: Although the adjutant general had responsibility for militia pay records before, during, and after the Civil War, including this series, from Dec. 1864 (pursuant to General Order 51) such records were in the specific custody of the paymaster general until that office lapsed in 1866. Spine title: Bounty pay rolls of Mass. Volunteers. –Reel GSU 508: 1- 388.  Reel GSU 509: 388-1301.  Reel GSU 510: 1301-2185.  Reel GSU 511: 2185-3118.  Reel GSU 512: 3118-3681
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