1843 antique NEW HAMPSHIRE MILITIA ledger cheshire co ROSTERS officers weapons For Sale

1843 antique NEW HAMPSHIRE MILITIA ledger cheshire co ROSTERS officers weapons
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Rare New Hampshire militia manuscript ledger, measuring approx. 7.5" x 12". This document dates from 1843–1846 and relates to the State Militia in Cheshire County, NH (principally Chesterfield, Winchester, and surrounding towns).

Contents include:

• Officer commissions and oaths of allegiance, signed before local justices of the peace.

• Company and regimental orders, signed by adjutants, colonels, and chaplains, including Edwin Richardson, Marshall H. Day, and Humphrey Atherton.

• Muster rolls and duty rosters naming officers, sergeants, corporals, musicians, and privates.

• Equipment inventories, noting muskets, rifles, bayonets, cartridge boxes, drums, fifes, and other military gear.

• Medical exemptions (e.g., 1844 certificate signed by regimental surgeon E. P. Wharton).

• Court-style attestations where officers certified appearance, fines, or absences.

• Newspaper clippings pasted at the rear, including poems, death notices, obituaries, and local news, giving the ledger additional social history depth.

Condition:

• No covers.

• Some pages have been excised (edges visible).

• Remaining pages show toning, foxing, and ink stains but are legible.

• A remarkable survival with extensive manuscript entries.

Genealogical Note – Alphabetized Surnames in This Ledger (1843–1846):

The following surnames are recorded among the officers, musicians, and privates listed.

Atherton, Babbitt, Bartlett, Beal, Beebe, Beekly, Bennett, Brackett, Braley, Brigham, Britton, Brown, Buckley, Bullard, Burt, Butler, Campbell, Carpenter, Carter, Chapin, Clark, Clough, Coombs, Crossfield, Cummings, Cutter, Davis, Dickinson, Eames, Eddy, Eddings, Eddison, Farr, Fiske, Fletcher, Goodrich, Graves, Hagar, Hall, Hamilton, Hastings, Hildreth, Hill, Hooper, Hopkins, Howe, Huggins, Keyes, Knight, Mixer, Newton, Parker, Perry, Richardson, Sabin, Scott, Sibley, Smith, Spaulding, Stoddard, Stratton, Taylor, Twitchell, Warner, Watton, Whitcomb, Whitmore, Wilcox, Wright.

(First names and ranks are present in the manuscript, but only surnames are shown here for clarity.)

Authentic period piece related to family, historyor local heritage - well-suited for historical collections, genealogical /genealogy research, or museum acquisition.Vintage or Antique.

CONDITION: See listing description and photos.




















































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