Leeds, Androscoggin County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Vital Records · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Androscoggin County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Androscoggin County in 1854)
Incorporated
1801 from Littleborough Plantation
Previous Designations
The southerly three-fourths of town was part of the Pejepscot Purchase
Boundary Changes
Part of Livermore was annexed in 1802
"In 1809, taken from Monmouth and annexed to Leeds, was a piece of land 160 rods wide and the length of the line between the towns." [Stinchfield, History of the town of Leeds (1901), p. 1]
Land was set off to Wayne in 1810 and 1859, and to Wales in 1855
"In 1852, that portion of Leeds sometimes called New Boston, was set off and annexed to Wales." [Stinchfield, History of the town of Leeds (1901), p. 1]
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Curtis Corner, Dead River (former railroad station), East Leeds (former post office), Highmoor (former railroad station), Keenes Corner, Leeds Center, Libbys Pit (former railroad station), North Leeds, South Leeds, West Leeds
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Greene, Livermore, Livermore Falls, Monmouth, Wales, Wayne
Maps
Vital Records
Leeds Marriage Intentions, 1801-1825
Leeds Marriage Intentions, 1826-1850
Leeds Marriage Intentions, 1851-1875
Leeds Marriage Intentions, 1876-1901
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Leeds
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Leeds, Androscoggin, Maine
Official Website: Town of Leeds
Bibliography
______, Souvenir of Greene & Leeds, 1911 (Brunswick, Me.: Maine Map & Register, [1911])
Lynn, Elizabeth Mitchell, Taken From the Ground: Leeds, Maine in the Twentieth Century (Carmel, Ind.: Full Court Press, 1989)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The town register, Wayne, Wales, Monmouth, Leeds, Greene: 1905 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1905)
Stinchfield, J. C., History of the town of Leeds, Androscoggin County, Maine: from its settlement June 10, 1780 (Lewiston, Me.: Press of Lewiston Journal Co., 1901)
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