Nearly all towns tell of
Civil War soldiers and sailors in their "Rebellion Record". These
books almost always provide date and term of enlistment, regiment,
and company. Often, they include age, date or place of birth, names
of parents and/or spouse, previous occupation, place of residence,
date of discharge or death details.
Abington:
Abington Miscellaneous Record Book
1826-1859. 328 pages. Fiches 40-42.
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.
Acton:
Acton Rebellion Record 1861-1865. 77
pages. Fiches 46-47.
Record of Acton Militia 1810-1823.
Fiches 48-51.
Adams:
Adams Journal of Records
1832-[1854]. [Book 2.] 412 pages. Fiches 90-104.
Besides minutes of town meetings,
this book provides long lists of militia (1841, 1845, 1846, 1848,
1849, 1850, 1851, 1853, 1854), jurors and surveyors.
Adams
[Town] Records 1855-1865. [Book 3.] 705 pages. Fiches
105-120.
Adams Records 1865-1871. Book 4. About 600 pages. Fiches
121-130.
Adams Records [1872-1877]. [Book 5.] About 760 pages. Fiches
131-140.
Athol:
Athol in Suppressing the Great Rebellion [1861-1865].
408 pages. Fiches 77-80. Among the many lists of
persons in this book are those exempted from military service ,
those who provided substitutes, and those who paid compensation.
Soldiers and sailors are identified, along with their regiments,
battalions, etc; sometimes with age, birthplace, occupation, and a
short biography.
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. Fiches 54-58.
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.
Athol [Payments to Military Dependents 1862-1864].
About 100 pages. Fiche 91-82. This is a record of payments made
to military dependents, usually identifying wife and children,
or mother, by name and age.
Athol Roll of Deceased Soldiers [1861-1911]. About 15
pages. Fiche 83.
This record, prepared by for Parker Post 123 G.A.R., identifies
soldiers by name, company, regiment, date of death, place of
burial and, sometimes, rank, age, or cause of death.
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.
Boylston Rebellion Record 1861-1865.
Fiche 62.
Includes the story of Francis M.
Harrington's sacrifice for a wounded comrade. Francis, kept at a
prison-of-war camp, gave his number for freedom to a wounded
comrade so that he could go home. That meant Francis had to stay
in the camp another year. The comrade, unfortunately, died in
route home (pp 80-81).
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.
Hingham:
Hingham Rebellion Record 1861-1866.
[9" 1/2 x 15" brown leather book]. Fiches 92-94.
Includes name, age, rank, dates of service and, sometimes, death
data, marital status, parents, previous occupation and other
biographical information.
Norton:
Norton Enrolled Militia
1857-1902. ca 150 pages.
Fiches 44-46.
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.
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. Fiches
28-31. 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.
Walpole:
Walpole Town Records 1833-1857. [Vol
3.] 362 pages. Fiches 22-26.
Militia Records 1833-1857.
Walpole Town Records 1857-1885.
[Vol 4.] 550 pages. Fiches 27-34.
Militia Records 1857-1885.
Walpole Overseers of Poor Records [1861-1864]. About 74
pages. Fiche 35.
Many of the paupers referenced in this book are related to Civil
War volunteers. Records on pages 1-49 usually provide ages of
dependents, company and regiment of volunteer.
Warren:
Warren Rebellion Record 1861-1866.
Fiches 26-27.
This record identifies Civil War soldiers and sailors, their age
at enlistment and, sometimes, parents and date of birth.
Watertown:
Watertown Rebellion Record [1861-1865].
Fiches 84-86.
Also Mexican Border Service 1916.
Watertown Soldiers Record [1861-1863].
Fiches 87-88.
Watertown GAR Records [1861-1906].
Fiches 89-90.
GAR (Grand Army of the Republic) records of Civil War veterans
usually include age, birthplace, occupation, dates of enlistment
and discharge, rank, company, regiment, length of service, cause
of discharge, and, sometimes, the death date.
Wayland:
Wayland Records 1840 [-1873]. Book 4.
About 325 pages. Fiches 75-76.
Besides personal mortgages of 1840-1859 and militia rolls of
1840-1873, this book contains such miscellaneous records as
bills of sale, writs of attachment, foreclosure notices,
perambulations, appointments of town officials, and granting of
town licenses; e.g., liquor permit on page 172. Note that the
militia rolls of 1865-1866 list age, occupation and birthplace.
Wayland Rebellion Records 1861-[1864].
About 25 pages. Fiche 80.
These records may include birth date & place, date of
enlistment, regiment & company, marital status, names of
parents, and/or previous occupation.
Soldiers & Sailors 1861-1864. Fiche 80.
Wayland Records: Militia Rolls 1874-1878.
18 pages. FICHE 80
Wenham:
Wenham Rebellion Record 1861-1866. 89
pages. Fiches 36-37
Westborough:
Westborough Rebellion Records 1861-1865.
121 pages. Fiches 91-92.
Westfield:
Soldiers & Sailors in American Revolution. Fiches
23-24
West
Bridgewater:
West Bridgewater Rebellion Record 1861-1865 [and Other Military
Records]. Fiches 34-35. Besides names,
the Rebellion Records often provide place and date of birth and
death, names of parents, previous occupation, and/or dates of
military service. Other military records identify nearly 400
members of the State Guard and Reserve Militia--with age,
occupation, place of birth, and marital status, including those
who died during Civil War service; World War I veterans; and
Civil War veterans still living circa 1919. Soldier & Officers
1861-1865.
Westford:
Westford Militia Enrollment 1840-1864.
About 160 pages. Fiches 128-129.
Look for the special list in 1862 that includes occupation and
age.
Westford Rebellion Records 1861-1865.
103+ pages. Fiches 130-136.
Besides name, these records may include date and place of birth,
parents, residence and occupation at time of enlistment, rank,
bounty or not, length of service, and/or death or discharge
date.
Westford Militia Roll 1864-1911.
209 pages. Fiche 131.
The militia rolls of 1864-1872 on the first 25 pages of this
book give name, age, occupation, and reason, if any, for
exemption from duty. The remaining pages contain registers of
voters from 1899-1911.
Westford [Dispersements in Aid of Families of
Volunteers 1872-1877].About 100 pages.
Fiches 134-136. Amounts of state aid paid to families of
volunteers in the Civil War. Payees identified, along with their
relationship to the volunteer. Tables at the end of the book
give greatest detail, including childrens' ages.
Westminster:
Westminster Militia Lists 1840-1874.
About 120 pages. Fiches 99, 106. Militia lists identify male
residents aged 18-45; further, records of 1864-1873 include age
and occupation of each.
Westminster Rebellion Record [1861-1865].
Fiches 107-108.
Two separate records combine to form this book. Be sure to check
both as one may provide statistics not found in the other.
Information may include data pertaining to birth, parents,
regiment, company, length of service, bounty, and previous
occupation. Index; Soldiers & Officers 1861-1865.
West
Newbury:
West Newbury Record of Soldiers and Seamen During World War I
.
Fiche 19
Weymouth:
Weymouth Militia
Enrollment 1840-1857.
Fiche 83-85.
Weymouth Rebellion Record 1861-1865. 331 pages. Fiche
86-90.
Weymouth Volunteers 1861-1865. Fiches 91-93.
These records of volunteers indicate the date sworn into service
and the company and regiment of duty. They often include the
names of relatives and the amount of aid given to the volunteer
or his family.
Weymouth Bounty Payments for Civil War Service. 76 pages.
Fiches 94-95.
Those listed here may have served as servicemen for other towns
while residents of Weymouth. Apparently bounty was their pay.
Burial Record Book of Reynolds Post #58 Weymouth Civil War
Veterans.
Civil War Veteran Burials 1869-1931, pp 1-28 + index. Fiche
96-97.
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