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.  This series documents the administrative management of detached units of the Massachusetts Militia performing service during the War of 1812 on the Maine coast, where they were posted by the governor to defend against a threatened invasion by the British. –Intermittently the General Court acted to authorize payment of these troops by the adjutant general (e.g., Resolves 1812, c 158; Resolves 1813, c 105).  Consisting of an assortment of payrolls, muster rolls, abstracts, copies of brigade orders and general orders, and other supporting items, documentation provided by this series was used primarily to validate payments to troops for service.  It also served to confirm personnel in the respective militia units and to determine their strength.  Information includes name of soldier, date of muster/pay, length of term, rank, amounts paid, arms and accouterments, and remarks. –At the back of the volume is a contemporary printed document entitled: Tables of pay and emoluments of the Army of the United States.  It provides information on the rates of pay and subsistence costs of all categories of U.S. Army personnel.  Also laid in the back are several loose rolls and related correspondence made available by Frank E. Dresser in 1930.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically, thereunder by military unit
Notes: Spine title: Letters to qr. ms. gen’l. and additional rolls of troop service
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