County

Hancock County (set off from Lincoln County in 1789)

 Incorporated

1787 from Majorbigwaduce Plantation

 Previous Designations

Township No. 3 East of Penobscot River, Livermore Survey (T3 EPR LS); Township No. 3 West of Union River; Majorbigwaduce (Magorbigwaduce, Magabagwaduce, Maja Bagadoose, etc.)

 Boundary Changes

Land was set off to form Castine in 1796, and Brooksville in 1817

Land was set off to Castine in 1817, 1839, and 1927, and to Surry in 1843

Parts of Surry and Blue Hill were annexed in 1845, and part of Sedgwick in 1857

 Villages, Locations and Settlements

Marks Corner, North Penobscot, Penobscot, Penobscot Center (former post office), South Penobscot, West Penobscot

 Adjacent Towns and Townships

Blue Hill, Brooksville, Castine, Orland, Sedgwick, Stockton Springs, Surry, Verona

 Maps

Historical USGS Maps of Penobscot, Maine

Map of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, c. 1896

 Cemeteries

Penobscot Tombstone Project

Bay Cemetery

 Vital Records

Penobscot, Maine Vital Records

 Miscellaneous Resources

Magorbigwaduce Petitioners, 1763

Petition for the Incorporation of Penobscot, 1785

Some Residents of Castine and Penobscot, 1785-1790

 General Resources

Family History Library Catalog: Penobscot, Hancock, Maine

Penobscot Historical Society

MEGenWeb Project: Penobscot

Maine Memory Network: Penobscot

 Bibliography

______, Vital statistics, copied from town records, Penobscot, Maine, 1787, date of incorporation, to 1875 (North Brooksville, Me.: Brooksville Historical Society, 1940)

Doudiet, Ellenore, Majabigwaduce : Castine, Penobscot, Brooksville (Castine, Me. : Castine Scientific Society, 1978)

Hoffmann, Donna, comp., Penobscot vital records 1700-1890 (Brewer, Me.: Cay-Bel Publishing Co., 1984)

Mitchell, Frederick B., Penobscot Bicentennial, 1787-1987 ([Penobscot, Me. : Penobscot Historical Society?, 1987])

Mitchell, H. E., The town register, Islesboro, Castine, Penobscot, Brooksville, 1906 [Ancestry.com] (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1906)

Montgomery, Job Herrick, Address of J.H. Montgomery, Esq. : at the centennial celebration of the town of Penobscot, September 14, 1887 (Camden [Me.] : Herald Print, 1887)

Wheeler, George Augustus, History of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, Maine; including the ancient settlement of Pentagöet (Bangor, Me.: Burr & Robinson, 1875)