Ellsworth, Hancock County
County · Incorporated · Incorporated as a City · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Church Records · Military Records · Newspapers · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Hancock County (set off from Lincoln County in 1789)
Incorporated
1800 from Plantation No. 7
Incorporated as a City
1869
Previous Designations
Township No. 7 East of Penobscot River, Livermore Survey (T7 EPR LS); Bowdoin; New Bowdoin; New Bowdoin Plantation
The town includes a parcel known as Surry Gore, which lay on the east side of the Union River
Boundary Changes
Parts of Surry and Trenton were annexed in 1809; that part taken from Surry was set back in 1821
Part of Surry was annexed in 1829, and part of Dedham in 1852
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Bayside (former post office), Ellsworth, Ellsworth Falls (formerly Falls Village), Joyville, Lakewood, Nicolin (Nicolin Siding), North Ellsworth (Hurds Corner), West Ellsworth, Wilson Corner, Winkumpaugh Corners
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Dedham, Hancock, Lamoine, Mariaville, Orland, Otis, Surry, T8 SD, Trenton
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Ellsworth
Cemeteries
Church Records
Records of the First Unitarian Society of Ellsworth, Maine
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Ellsworth
World War I Servicemen from Ellsworth
Newspapers
Maine Obituaries: Ellsworth American
Jean's Genealogy Page — Index of deaths and marriages published in the Eastern Freeman (1853-54), Ellsworth Herald (1858-65), and Ellsworth American (1866-91)
The Ellsworth American - 1855-1902
Death and Marriage Records as Published in the Ellsworth American
Vital Records
Marriage Intentions at Ellsworth and Vicinity, 1800-1810
Death and Marriage Records as Published in the Ellsworth American
Miscellaneous Resources
Women's Suffrage Petition, 1858
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Ellsworth, Hancock, Maine
Official Website: City of Ellsworth
Maine Memory Network: Ellsworth
Bibliography
______, An American century : a history of the last 100 years from the pages of the Ellsworth American (Ellsworth, Me. : Ellsworth American, 1999)
______, Directory of Bar Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Ellsworth--Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Maine (Portland, Me. : Fred L. Tower Co., 1928- )
______, Manning's Bar Harbor, Ellsworth, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, Tremont and Trenton (Maine) directory (Springfield, Mass. : H.A. Manning Co., 1931)
Bacon, George Fox, Rockland, Belfast and vicinity: its representative business men and its points of interest, embracing Rockland, Belfast, Camden, Rockport, Bucksport, Ellsworth, Thomaston, Waldoboro, Warren, Damariscotta, Wiscasset, Newcastle (Newark, N. J., Glenwood Publishing Company, 1892)
Conners, Scott, Lawrence Haskell, and Gordon Donaldson, Ellsworth, Maine 1902-1912 : an original history (typescript, 1983)
Cunningham, Agnes H., History of Ellsworth, 1763 to 1910 ([S.l. : A. H. Cunningham, 1935)
Davis, Albert H., History of Ellsworth, Maine (Lewiston, Me.: Lewiston Journal Printshop, 1927)
Deane, Llewellyn, Biographical sketch of John G. Deane: and brief mention of his connection with the northeastern boundary of Maine ... also, memoranda about members of the family, old residents of the city of Ellsworth, Maine, &c. (Washington, D.C.: R. Beresford, printer, 1887)
Lawton, Peter I., et al. (comp)., The City of Ellsworth Register with Surry and Bluehill, 1908 (Auburn, Me., 1908)
Libbie, Frederick James, A Tinker family : the ancestors and descendants of Joseph Wescot Tinker, Ellsworth, Maine, 1791-1868; a descendant of John Tinker of Boston, 1638 (Boston, Mass., 1900)
Salisbury, Deale B., Ellsworth, crossroads of downeast Maine : a pictorial review (Virginia Beach, VA : Donning Company, c2005)
Ward, Mrs. Arthur, comp., Index of deaths and marriages as published in the Ellsworth herald and its successor the Ellsworth American: October 24, 1851 through December 29, 1865 (Brewer, Me.: Mrs. A. Ward, [1990?])
Ward, Mrs. Arthur, comp., Deaths and marriages as published in the Eastern freeman April 22, 1853 through July 28, 1854 (Brewer, Me.: Mrs. A. Ward, [1990?])
Ward, Mrs. Arthur, comp., Deaths and marriages as published in the Ellsworth American 1866-1891 (Brewer, Me.: Mrs. A. Ward, [1990?])
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