Abington:
Abington Miscellaneous Record Book
1826-1859. 328 pages.
Among the items included here are records of streets, roads and
boundaries; medical and liquor licenses; lists of militia,
teachers and jurors; church records; and dog registrations.
Look for militia lists of 1852-1859 on fiches 40-42.
Adams:
Adams Journal of Records
1832-[1854]. [Book 2.] 412 pages.
Besides minutes of town meetings,
this book provides long lists of militia (1841, 1845, 1846, 1848,
1849, 1850, 1851, 1853, 1854), jurors and surveyors. Blank or
missing pages include 157 and 298-301. Fiches 90-104. In fact, the
records of Adams shows military records four separate volumes from
fiches 90-140.
Athol:
Athol Town Records [1853-1871]. Vol
4. 530+ pages. Fiches 62-69. Included with town meeting minutes
are militia lists of 1853-1865, and the 1865 militia lists
(pages 293-308) that identify 654 men of Athol and Royalston by
age, occupation, birthplace, and marital status.
Athol Grand Army of the Republic...Personal War Sketches
[1860-1865]. Fiches 73-76, 83.
Presented to Hubbard V. Smith Post No. 140...[in] 1895. Besides
names of Civil War veterans, these records often provide birth
date, birthplace, and dates of service. Burial records on pages
379-383, give death date and/or burial place of about 100
veterans who died after 1883.
Athol Town Records [1827-1870].
Vol 3. 547 pages.
Besides marriage intentions of
1836-1851, militia lists of 1840-1852, and town meeting minutes of
1827-1852, this volume contains committee reports, juror lists,
pew deeds, reports of stray beasts, school records,
perambulations, liquor licenses, oaths of office, and agreements
related to fences, rights of way, and use of water and timber. For
an index to some of the marriage intentions, those of 1850-1851
(pages 462-465 of fiche 59), see fiches 118-120; for a typescript
of this volume, see fiches 27-32. Fiches 54-58.
Blackstone:
Blackstone Rebellion
Records 1861-1865. 259 pages.
Besides soldiers and sailors, these records list men
exempt from military service, and the reason for
exemption. Birth years, when given, range from about
1813-1844. Records of Rhode Island regiments are found
on pages 182-223. Fiches 1-4.
Boxborough:
Boxborough Town Records 1896[-1918].
Fiches 37-44. This book includes records of ... Birth places
(many out of the country) and birth dates ranging from 1882-1895
accompany the names of 1917 military enrollees.
Boylston:
Boylston Records 1835-1855. Vol IV. 556
pages. Fiches 17-24.
Besides town meeting minutes, this book includes militia
records of 1840-1854, juror lists, town accounts,
perambulations, and records of roads and fences.
Charlemont:
Charlemont Militia Soldiers
1840-1904. unpaged. Fiches 15-16.
Dracut:
Fiche 24
Dracut Town Records
1749-1780. Book 2. 552 pages.
Note, on page
351, the bill for minutemen's bayonets; and, on page
489, the town's 1778 donation of shoes, stockings and
shirts to soldiers serving in Continental army. Fiche
24.
Norton:
Norton Enrolled Militia
1857-1902. ca 150 pages.
This is a listing, by year, of males between the ages of 18 or
20 and 45. Specific age and occupation are included for the
listings of 1862, 1864 and 1865. Fiches 44-46.
Scituate:
Scituate Militia Records
1841-1881. Unpaged. Fiches
78-81.
Topsfield:
Topsfield Revolutionary and Militia
Papers 1775-1841. Fiches 47-50.
Uxbridge:
Uxbridge Miscellaneous Colonial Records &
Revolutionary Soldiers Receipts. This is a book of town records from about 1739-1798,
including military service, town meetings, road descriptions and tax
records. Pages 1-129 are receipts for service in the Continental Army
for varying periods of time. Receipts for 1780 include those for 14
days of service in response to the "alarm" at Tiverton (Rhode Island),
a three-month campaign to West Point (New York), and an unspecified
six-month campaign. Other items of special interest are references to
the "minute men" of 1794 (page 209), a treatise on the "state" of
Massachusetts Bay in 1777 (pp 215-216), and tax evaluations on pages
157-158, 163-165. Fiches 28-31.
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