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; these activities were intensified during the Civil War.  This series provides an abstract account of military payrolls during and after the war.
Arrangement: Arranged by payroll number (i.e., chronologically).
Notes: The origin of this series is unclear.  It may have been a summary of bounty payrolls prepared by the paymaster general, but the information given is insufficient to draw that conclusion.  No connection can be made between this record and: Massachusetts. Paymaster General. Bounty payroll accounts, 1865-1866 ((M-Ar)439X).  Having come to the Archives with other records from the Adjutant General’s Office, this item has been ascribed to that agency
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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 provides summarized data concerning personnel of the state militia, 1780-1823.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically by military unit
Restrictions: Restricted as fragile. Access by permission of state archivist or curator of Massachusetts Archives only
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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 in ledger format the expenditures and receipts undertaken and received by officers of the Massachusetts Militia during service on the Maine coast during the War of 1812, where they were posted by the governor to defend against a threatened invasion by the British.
Arrangement: Arranged by officer account
Restrictions: Restricted as fragile. Access by permission of state archivist or curator of Massachusetts Archives only
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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. Returns were completed and endorsed by brigade commanders to provide their divisional commanders and the adjutant general with information concerning the strength, organization, and provisioning of the militia.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically by brigade/division
Restrictions: Restricted as fragile. Access by permission of state archivist or curator of Massachusetts Archives only
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Arrangement: Arranged chronologically.
Notes: Public document, no. 7. –Includes extra copy of 1864 report, of 1862 report of surgeon general, quartermaster general, and master of armory only. –Reports for 1847-1848, 1858, 1861, 1863, 1866, 1878, 1880 missing
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Scope and Content: The adjutant general of the Commonwealth, as executive administrator of the state’s Military Establishment, has general superintendency over military stores and property.  This series comprises an expense ledger for FY1954 involving all National Guard armories.
Arrangement: Arranged by municipal armory account
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Scope and Content: The adjutant general of the Commonwealth, as executive administrator of the state’s Military Establishment, came to be responsible for preserving and administering information about all aspects of the state’s military service.  In this correspondence, commanding officers of units of the 101st Infantry Regiment, 26th Division American Expeditionary Forces, recommended individual soldiers for awards for heroism in World War I, including the Medal of Honor, Distinguished Service Cross, and Distinguished Service Medal.
Arrangement: Arranged by correspondence file number
Notes: Based on a penciled note with the file, it appears that these records were sent to the state secretary’s office at some point for photostatic copying
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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.  Resolves 1903, c 100 authorized the adjutant general to advertise for the names and addresses of all military personnel in the war who had not received the appropriate bounties, and to place the names before the next session of the legislature.  This series comprises the correspondence resulting from that authorization.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by correspondent
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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.  Consisting of descriptive rolls of recruits arranged by bounty number, this series established the basis on which individuals recruits received their bounty payments, pursuant to St 1863, c 218 and 254 and St 1864, c 130.
Arrangement: In two subseries: (1) Elective rolls of recruits (2) Elective rolls of recruits from southern states; arranged within each subseries by bounty number
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. Reel GSU 500: v. 1 (through 2585).  Reel GSU 501: v. 1 (from 2585)-v.5
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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.  This series documents bounty payments to soldiers, discharged soldiers, and heirs of deceased soldiers, as well as payments in disputed cases reviewed by the General Court.
Restrictions: Restricted as fragile. Access by permission of state archivist or curator of Massachusetts Archives only
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. Pages have been disbound
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