Scope and Content: Resolves 1840, c 21; 1841, c 52; 1843, c 47; 1844, c 117; 1845, c 5 and c 83; and 1847, c 81 directed the state secretary as record keeper for the Commonwealth to assemble state-owned records and to purchase or otherwise obtain those held by societies or individuals relating to military service by Massachusetts forces during the Revolutionary War; and to index them.  Resolves 1891, c 100 authorized publication under the secretary’s direction of data derived from the indexing (see below).  Series consists of records so assembled and bound, with indexes created. –Records include enlistment, descriptive, muster rolls; payrolls; receipts for pay, bounties, provisions, clothing; bonds; orders; lists of prisoners, deserters, casualties; lists of prize vessels, contents, privateers; and lists of pensioners.  Personnel include members of the Massachusetts militia, Continental Army, and naval forces.
Arrangement: Arranged by regiment or subject
Notes: Vols. 1-60 compiled by 1885 (see report cited in finding aid below). Vols. 61-62 are rolls purchased from Samuel Drake pursuant to Resolves 1893, c 33.  Vols. 63-76 compiled from 1894 from hitherto unidentified secretary’s records.  Vol. 77 and appendixes A-B listed as unnumbered vols. in 1885 report (p. 33); appendixes are transcripts from mostly unidentified records
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