Wiscasset, Lincoln County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Military Records · Newspapers · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Lincoln County (set off from York County in 1760)
Incorporated
1760 as Pownalborough from Frankfort Plantation; name changed to Wiscasset in 1802
Previous Designations
Parts lay in the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase) and in the Wiscasset Claim; Seaboard Sheepscot; East Pownalborough; South Precinct of Pownalborough
Boundary Changes
Land was set off to form Dresden in 1794, and New Milford (now Alna) in 1802
Annexed land from Alna in 1839
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Sheepscot (former railroad station), Wiscasset
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Alna, Dresden, Edgecomb, Newcastle, Westport, Woolwich
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Wiscasset
Military Records
Pownalborough Militia Companies, 1777
World War I Soldiers Index: Wiscasset
Newspapers
Maine Obituaries: Wiscasset Newspaper
Lincoln County News Digital Archives
Vital Records
Marriages in Pownalborough, 1760-1786
Marriages in Pownalborough, 1787-1801
Pownalborough Marriage Intentions, 1760-1780
Marriage Intentions in Pownalborough, 1780-1802
Miscellaneous Resources
Kennebec Purchase Petitioners, 1752
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Wiscasset, Lincoln, Maine
Official Website: Town of Wiscasset
Maine Memory Network: Wiscasset
Maine Memory Network: Pownalborough
Bibliography
Allen, Charles E., "Ancient Pownalboro and her Daughters," New England Magazine, vol. 24 (Boston, Mass.: Warren F. Kellogg, 1901)
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)
Bartlet, William S., The frontier missionary : a memoir of the life of the Rev. Jacob Bailey, A.M., missionary at Pownalborough, Maine; Cornwallis and Annapolis, N. S. (Boston, Mass.: Ide and Dutton, 1853)
Bradford, Rev. Alden, "A Description of Wiscasset, and of the River Sheepscot," Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the Year 1800 (Boston, Mass., 1801)
Briggs, Maud Fuller, Wiscasset: the home of my ancestors and the place of my birth (1920)
Chase, Fannie S., Wiscasset in Pownalborough: a history of the shire town and the salient historical features of the territory between the Sheepscot and Kennebec Rivers (Wiscasset, Me.: unknown, 1941)
Dunsford, Allton, Wiscasset, Maine (1988)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The town register: Wiscasset, Edgecomb, Whitefield, Alna, Woolwich, Dresden, 1906 (PDF) (Brunswick, Me.: H. E. Mitchell, 1906)
Patterson, William D., Wiscasset in early days : historical notes pertaining to the old town on the Sheepscot River (Bath, Me.: Printed by the Times Co., 1929)
Patterson, William Davis, comp., Intentions of marriage, copied from the records of Pownalborough, 1760 to 1778: intentions of marriage in Pownalborough, 1780 to 1802: record of marriages in Pownalborough (now Wiscasset and Dresden) 1760 to 1786 (Wiscasset, Me.: William D. Patterson, [1987?])
Thayer, Rev. Henry O., "A Page of Indian History: The Wiscasset Tragedy," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 10 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1899)
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