Dresden, Lincoln County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Church Records · Maps · Military Records · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Lincoln County (set off from York County in 1760)
Incorporated
1794 from part of Pownalborough (now Wiscasset)
Previous Designations
Part of the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase); West Precinct of Pownalborough; Point Precinct
Boundary Changes
Part of Alna was annexed in 1841
Swan Island was set off to form Perkins (now Perkins Township) in 1847
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Cedar Grove, Dresden (Dresden Village, once called Eastern River), Dresden Mills, Hatchs Corner (Hatch's Corner), South Dresden, West Dresden
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Alna, Perkins Township, Pittston, Richmond, Wiscasset, Woolwich
Church Records
Records of the Dresden Congregational Church, 1801-1853
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Dresden
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Dresden
Pownalborough Militia Companies, 1777
Vital Records
Vital Records of Dresden, Maine; Births (1786-1906) and Deaths (1791-1896)
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: Dresden, Lincoln, Maine
Official Website: Town of Dresden
Bibliography
Allen, Charles E., "Leaves from the Early History of Dresden," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 1 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1890)
Allen, Charles E., Some Huguenot and other early settlers on the Kennebec in the present town of Dresden ([Portland, Me.: Maine Historical Society, 1892])
Allen, Charles E., "Ancient Pownalboro and her Daughters," New England Magazine, vol. 24 (Boston, Mass.: Warren F. Kellogg, 1901)
Allen, Charles Edwin, History of Dresden, Maine: formerly a part of the old town of Pownalborough, from its earliest settlement to the year 1900 ([Augusta, Me.: Kennebec Journal Print Shop], 1931)
Bailey, Rev. Jacob, 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)
Groves, Marlene A., Index to Charles Edwin Allen's History of Dresden, Maine (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c1994)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The town register: Wiscasset, Edgecomb, Whitefield, Alna, Woolwich, Dresden, 1906 (PDF) (Brunswick, Me.: H. E. Mitchell, 1906)
Palmer, Rundlette Kensell, A history of Dresden, Maine ([s.l.: The Author, 1979])
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?])
Sauers, Grace Harrison, Malbon genealogy : descendants of Daniel Malbon, French Huguenot of Dresden, Maine (Fontana, Calif., 1953)
Thayer, Rev. Henry O., "The Transient Town of Cork," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 3 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1892)
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