Bath, Sagadahoc County
County · Incorporated · Incorporated as a City · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Newspapers · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Sagadahoc County (set off from Lincoln County in 1854)
Incorporated
1781, having been set off from Georgetown in 1753
Incorporated as a City
1847
Previous Designations
Once considered part of the Pejepscot Purchase, but claimed by assigns of the Kennebec proprietors in 1761; a 1766 court decision recognized it as belonging to the heirs and assigns of Robert Gutch (the Gutch Claim)
Long Reach; Second Parish of Georgetown
With Phippsburg and West Bath was anciently called Small Point Neck
Boundary Changes
The southwestern portion of the town was set off to form West Bath in 1844, and part of that town was annexed in 1855
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Bath, North Bath (once called Ireland)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Arrowsic, Bowdoinham, Brunswick, Phippsburg, Topsham, West Bath, Woolwich
Maps
Cemeteries
Newspapers
Lincoln Telegraph — at Chronicling America
Northern Tribune — at Chronicling America
Eastern Times — at Chronicling America
Vital Records
Record of Marriages by Rev. John W. Ellingwood of Bath, 1813-1853
Miscellaneous Resources
Kennebec Purchase Petitioners, 1752
Members of Washington Teetotal Society of Bath, 1840
Bath Seamen's Proofs of Citizenship, 1833-1868
Maine Military Children's Home Records, 1874-1906
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Bath
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Bath, Sagadahoc, Maine
Official Website: City of Bath
Maine Community Heritage Project: Bath
Bibliography
______, Leading business men of Lewiston, Augusta and vicinity: embracing also, Auburn, Gardiner, Waterville, Oakland, Dexter, Fairfield, Skowhegan, Hallowell, Richmond, Bath, Brunswick, Freeport, Canton, Buckfield, Mechanic Falls, South Paris, Norway, Farmington and Winthrop with an historical sketch of each place, illustrated (Boston: Mercantile Pub. Co., 1889, c1888)
Lemont, Levi P., 1400 historical dates of the town and city of Bath, and town of Georgetown, from 1604 to 1874 (Bath, Me.: Published by the author [Printed by E. Upton & son] 1874)
Owen, Henry Wilson, The Edward Clarence Plummer history of Bath, Maine (Bath, Me.: Times Co., 1936)
Preble, George A., A complete schedule of vessels built and registered in the district of Bath, Maine, commencing at 1783, giving rig, name, tonnage, where built, first master, registering owner, and hailing port (Bath, Me.: Fen G. Parker, 1878)
Reed, Parker McCobb, History of Bath and environs, Sagadahoc County, Maine, 1607- 1894 (Portland, Me.: Lakeside Press, Printers, 1894)
Sewall, Gen. Joseph, "History of Bath," Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Vol. 2 (Portland, Me.: Published for the Society, 1847)
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