New Hampshire Men On The Massachusetts Revolutionary War Rolls

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The following table of residents of the state of New Hampshire who served in Massachusetts organizations in the Revolutionary war has been compiled from the official publication of the Massachusetts Revolutionary war rolls, issued by the Secretary of the Commonwealth, with the exception of those names which will be included in volume 17, the concluding volume of the series, which is not yet in print. The names credited to this volume were taken from the manuscript cards in the archives of the office.

This list cannot be complete, and is not published as such. It includes only those who are positively identified on the rolls, by residences given, as men of New Hampshire towns. All doubtful cases have been omitted. In the seventeen large volumes comprising the printed Revolutionary records of Massachusetts there are many thousands of names to which no residence is given. It is, without doubt, a fact that some of these were New Hampshire men, but there is no way of identifying them. Another cause of uncertainty is the duplication of the names of towns in the two states. In the published Massachusetts rolls there are comparatively few cases of names of towns outside of Massachusetts in which the name of the state is indicated. It may be said that the original rolls failed on this point, and that in the print the original was followed with scruulous care. Whatever geographical information might have been derived from a roll in its entirety, by the known residences of the officers, or by the aggregation of names peculiar to a certain locality, is, of course, lost in the alphabetical adopted in the publication of these rolls. It has, therefore, been necessary to omit from this abstract, as doubtful, many names credited to towns which appear in both Massachusetts and New Hampshire. Salem, Deerfield, Dunstable, Marlborough, and Amherst are examples, and there are many more. All names in this doubtful class have been omitted unless proved by other evidence to be of New Hampshire.

A classification of these men by rank and duty is of interest.

OFFICERS

Colonel			1
Lieutenant-Colonel	1
Major			2
Surgeon			2
Captain			12
Lieutenant		9
Adjutant		2
First Lieutenant	7
Second Lieutenant	7
Ensign			4
	Total		47	47

NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS

Sergeant		66
Corporal		55
			121	121

SPECIAL DUTY

Musician		26
Artificer		1
Matross			40
Gunner			7
Bombardier		2
			76	76

Seamen				24
Privates			697
Not stated			80
	Total			1045

Revolutionary Documents

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