Well, Here's some ideas where American Colonial Documents for Massachusetts can be found and where they are held in both the Canadian and the US public libraries and archives as well as within England's PRO: Massachusetts (Colony). General Court, House of Representatives. "Journals of the House of Representatives" 55 vols., 1715 - 1779, Boston: Massachusetts Historical Society, 1919 - 1990. Massachusetts (Colony). "Records of the Governor and Company of the Massachusetts Bay", 5 vols. (in #6), Boston: W. White, Printer to the Commonwealth, 1853 - 1854. New Plymouth Colony. "Records of the Colony of New Plymouth, in New England" 12 vols. (in #10), Boston: Press of W. White, 1855 - 1861. Many records of militia and volunteer units are preserved in county record offices, but those collected centrally are now in the PRO. Within the PRO there are two places where information provides muster rolls for militia units in the colonies of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island from 1759 to 1763: T-64 information various' 1547 to 1930, and T-64/22. Then, there are two others with finding aids within the PRO (WO-28) with the title 'Headquarters Records, 1746 to 1909' and one which holds lists of men who served in provincial volunteer forces in North America during 1746 to 1747 and 1775 to 1783 (WO-28/4-5). Some militia lists have been published by local history societies. Jeremy Sumner Wycherley Gibson's "Militia Lists and Musters 1757 - 1876: A Directory of Holdings in the British Isles" by Jeremy Gibson and Mervyn Medlycott, 3rd ed. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., inventories militia lists at the county record offices and lists publications by county. William Spences's "Records of the Militia and Volunteer Forces 1758 - 1945" (London: PRO Publications, 1997) is also indispensable for researching British militia lists. My source is: "Genealogical Research in England's Public Record Office: A Guide for North Americans" by Judith Prowse Reid and Simon Fowler. ISBN # 0806316322 This book not only shows you how to use the PRO, it also tells the genealogist where to look for the same information that the PRO has, here locally within any Canadian or US archive/library...There are finding aids and explanations for everything having to do with the PRO and shows the researsher where to find what the PRO has ON THIS CONTINENT!! Rhonda Houston ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Looking for a reference that lists claims in Massachusetts, Hampden County. Have this quote from Kelley Family History, 1897 "Eliakim Stow was a zealous Revolutionary patriot. He rendered all the material that could be spared from his farm and, from principle, received Continental money at par for everything he had to sell for the army." Eliakim Stow b. 1707, d. 1789 Hampden Co, MA. Lived there at least from 1761. Any ideas? Debbie Cupp