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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Scope and Content: Rolls were created to provide an abstract of the Civil War service record of soldiers of the Massachusetts Volunteers that served in three-year units, Including infantry regiments (35-61 only), cavalry, and artillery. –For details, see the series relating to soldiers of shorter terms: Rolls of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, 1861-1865 ((M-Ar)465X)
Arrangement: Arranged by regiment, thereunder by military unit
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Scope and Content: Rolls were created to provide an abstract of the Civil War service record of soldiers in the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia units, those that served shorter terms, including three months, nine months, and one hundred days. The rolls are arranged by regiment and then company, with officers listed first and then privates alphabetically by first letter of surname. –Information includes name, rank, occupation, age, marital status, residence, town credited to, date enlisted, date mustered, reenlistment date, date mustered out. Sometimes type of roll (descriptive, muster, island, misc., elective, provost marshal, re-enlist, muster-out) is given (with roll no.) where information was presumably gathered. The series: Descriptive lists of recruits for Massachusetts Volunteers, 1863-1864 ((M-Ar)477X), Muster rolls of Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865 ((M-Ar)441X), and Muster-out rolls of Massachusetts Volunteers, 1864-1866 ((M-Ar)727X) are the most frequently cited. A remarks field contains information on the death, desertion, discharge or transfer of the soldier, including transfer to the Navy or service in later regiments. These annotations continued into the early twentieth century as new information continued to be gathered from the War Dept. and other sources for confirming service records for pension claims, and for publication of:  Massachusetts soldiers, sailors, and marines in the Civil War (1931-1937). –For an account of three-year soldiers see: Rolls of Massachusetts Volunteers, 1861-1865 ((M-Ar)443X). For similar records of sailors, see: Descriptive lists of Massachusetts Volunteers in the U.S. Navy, 1861-1865 ((M-Ar)458X). –A glued-in sheet containing resolutions of the veterans of the 47th Regiment, dated Sept. 2, 1901, is found in v. 9 (47th-48th regiments).  A photostat certifying Winslow Lewis as a member of the Boston Light Infantry Association, dated Nov. 1, 1862, is in v. 7 (43rd-44th regiments)
Arrangement: Arranged by military unit
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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; these activities were intensified during the Civil War.  This series identifies militia officers in the military districts in Massachusetts to which they were assigned at that time.
Arrangement: Arranged numerically by military district
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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 information about past military episodes and service relating to Massachusetts.  This series documents the history of the Charlestown City Guard Rifle Club.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically in reverse order
Notes: While provenance is unknown, the scrapbook was probably assembled by Captain Brown
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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.  These affidavits detail consumable military property that had been lost, stolen, destroyed, or expended; they were prepared by company commanders of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia pursuant to Special Order 101 (June 1, 1911) and forwarded to the adjutant general through the quartermaster general.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically
Notes: Letter of transmittal stamped as received by the Adjutant General’s Office (A.G.O.)
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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.  This series summarizes total bounties paid by the Massachusetts municipalities, as well as corresponding reimbursements made to them by the state.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by county, thereunder alphabetically by  municipality
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: Municipal bounties–summaries of payments
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Scope and Content: The adjutant general of the Commonwealth, as executive administrator of the state’s Military Establishment, is responsible for coordinating information and directives both within the Military Establishment and between it and other jurisdictions.  This series consists of routine telegraphic communications involving the adjutant general.
Arrangement: Arranged chronologically in reverse order
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Scope and Content: The Executive Office of Labor coordinates state agencies responsible for worker economic rights, health, and safety; and for labor bargaining units, collective bargaining, and settlement of labor disputes.  Administrative issue and policy files are maintained by the secretary of labor’s office to track policies and issues in which the executive office has interest or oversight from inception through planning and implementation.
Arrangement: Arranged alphabetically by subject
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Scope and Content: The attorney general of Massachusetts is the Commonwealth’s chief legal officer.  The Executive Bureau, which includes the attorney general and personal staff, is responsible for the overall supervision of the legal services provided by the office, for budgetary and personnel matters, and for the development of a uniform and consistent legal policy for the state.  Series is created by the first assistant attorney general’s unit within that bureau to oversee operations of the office, with particular attention to issuing opinions and reviewing legislation.
Arrangement: Arranged by alphabetically by subject
Notes: Also known as: General files
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