State aid applications, certificates, etc., 1861-1921.

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State aid applications, certificates, etc., 1861-1921.

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Letters from other towns concerning state aid (1861-1865); general order No. 6 1863 concern act passed Chapter 76, Commonwealth of Massachusetts in aid of families of volunteers; accounts, applications, and communications; names and causes of death of persons drawing state aid; Dale Fund recipients; applications and petitions for aid under Chapter 282 Acts 1878 which include name, enlistment date, discharge date, and rank; order authorizing payments; printed forms for financial, family, and military information concerning applicants for Office of Soldiers' Relief, in City Hall; Adjutant General certificates that list name, age, town, occupation, military unit, enlistment date, and mustering in and mustering out dates; Committee on State Aid miscellaneous papers and minutes (1907); military aid and state aid certificates, correspondence, and applications; and undated list of certain veterans and widows, Civil War through World War I compiled in 1921 apparently relating to state aid.

8 file folders.

Gloucester Archives

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Massachusetts. Adjutant General's Office

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Dale Fund.

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Massachusetts. Office of Soldiers' Relief

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