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Because men tended to enroll in service units close to their homes and with neighbors, using military lists can be helpful in tracing migration patterns. Muster rolls, pay receipts, and other service records are complete for New Hampshire residents from the colonial period through the Civil War and are available in three published collections.
Ayling, August D. Revised Register of the Soldiers and Sailors of New Hampshire in the War of Rebellion, 1861–1866. Concord, N.H., 1895.
New Hampshire State Papers. Vols. 5-6, 14, 16. Include records of those who served in the French and Indian Wars for New Hampshire. Vols. 14-17 include “Rolls of Documents Relating to Soldiers in the Revolutionary War.” Indexes available.
Potter, Chandler E. The Military History of the State of New Hampshire, 1623–1861. 2 vols. 1866, 1868. Reprint (2 vols. in 1). Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1972.
The New Hampshire Records and Archives has Civil War enlistment papers in a microfiche edition, which is also available at the New England Historic Genealogical Society.
The New Hampshire Historical Society has a name index and abstracts in seventy-one volumes of all New Hampshire residents who received pensions, regardless of residence. A microfilm of these volumes and index is at the New England Historic Genealogical Society. The original applications and records are in Washington, D.C., at the National Archives, with microfilm copies in Waltham, Massachusetts, at the New England Branch.
- Submit a website for New Hampshire Military Records
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- Revolutionary War Rolls, 1775-1783 from the State of New Hampshire
(The National Archives): View, Print Copy & Save Original Documents in NARA publication M246 include muster rolls, payrolls, strength returns, and other miscellaneous personnel, pay, and supply records of American Army units, 1775-83.
- Compiled Service Records of Soldiers Who Served in the American Army During the Revolutionary War from the State of New Hampshire
- Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files from the State of New Hampshire
- Search Civil War Soldiers, Service Records, Regiments, General Officers, Battle Summaries, Pension Index: 1861-1934, CSA Field Officers and the War of the Rebellion
- Organization Index to Pension Files of Veterans Who Served Between 1861 and 1900 from the State of New Hampshire
- Search Revolutionary War 1775-83 Service Records
, Rejected Pensions, Loyalists Records, 1775-1783 Pay Rolls, Courts-Martial, Officers, Pension Index
- Military - The men and women called to serve their country in military duty are a source of pride to their families and to their nation. Now, with databases containing more than 16 million names and thousands of government records available to search, researching your veteran ancestors has become easier than ever before.
List conflicts dating from earliest to 1865
See Also Researching in Military Records and Colonial & United States Wars From Earliest to 1865
Conflicts involving New Hampshire dating from earliest to 1865. Wars covered that are available are:
- Pequot War 1637-1638
- French and Iroquois Wars 1642-1698
- King Philip’s War 1675–1676
- Pueblo Rebellion 1680
- King William’s War 1689–98
- Queen Anne’s War 1702–1713
- Tuscarora War 1711-1715
- Dummer's War 1723-1726
- King George’s War 1744–48
- French and Indian War 1754–63
- Pontiac's Rebellion 1763-1766
- Lord Dunmore's War 1774
- Revolutionary war
- Tripolitan War 1801-1805
- War of 1812 1812–15
- Creek Indian War 1813-1814
- The First Seminole War 1818-1819
- Texas Revolutionary War 1835-1836
- Second Seminole War 1835-1842
- Mexican War 1846–48
- Civil War 1861–65
- Spanish-American War 1898
- World War I 1917–18
- World War II 1941–45
- Korean War 1950–53
- Vietnam War 1961–73
- War on Terrorism 2001-Present
