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New York (State). Militia

 Organization

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Legal documents - Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania

 Collection
Identifier: 4779
Abstract Last will and testament of Colonel Pierre Benjamin Faneuil, Boston, Massachusetts, 1877; signed manuscript Revolutionary War pension request for Tyler Porter, with list of battles, Massachusetts, 1818; New York State Militia Return of Officers ... under Command of Brigadier-General Lyman Curtiss, 1834; Beebee & Co. Bullion Exchange Bankers, New York financial statement, 1851; will of Christian Gingery of Warwick, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, includes mention of "mulato Girl," 1778;...
Dates: 1773-1851.

New York State Militia Cortland County enrollment book

 Collection — Manuscript box 2 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239539]
Identifier: 227
Scope and content

Lists of names, residence, age, and classification of men eligible for military duty; Samuel M. Kinney, enrolling officer; regiment and company uncertain, but Towns of Cortlandville, Freetown, Homer, and Virgil are included; a number of men whose names appear, later became members of the 185th Regiment, New York Volunteers, mustered September 1864.

Dates: 1864.

New York State Militia enrollment book

 Collection — Manuscript box 1 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065239349]
Identifier: 149
Scope and content

List of names of men liable for military duty in the state militia, giving age, class, and physical defects; Jacob S. Greene, enrolling officer; filed in clerk's office, Lansing, Tompkins County N.Y..

Dates: 1864.

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Subject
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. 2
Cortland County (N.Y.) -- History, Military. 1
Draft registration. 1
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- United States 1
Foreign exchange. 1