Litchfield, Kennebec County
County · Organized · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Kennebec County (set off from Lincoln County in 1835)
Organized
1793 as Smithfield Plantation
Incorporated
1795
Previous Designations
Part of the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase); Smithtown; Smithfield
Boundary Changes
A small part of the town which lay in Kennebec County was annexed by Lincoln County in 1811
Land was set off to Bowdoinham in 1817, to Wales in 1827 and 1856, to West Gardiner in 1856, and to Webster (now Sabattus) in 1867
Boundary with Richmond was established in 1824
Land was set off to form Kennebec (now Manchester) in 1850
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Batchelders Crossing, Litchfield (formerly Purgatory Mills), Litchfield Corners, Litchfield Plains, Ring Hill, South Litchfield
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Bowdoin, Gardiner, Monmouth, Richmond, Wales, West Gardiner
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Litchfield
Cemeteries
Pease Cemetery, Litchfield, Me.
Purgatory Village Cemetery, Litchfield, Me.
Miscellaneous Resources
Maine Town Reports: Litchfield
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Litchfield
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Litchfield, Kennebec, Maine
Official Website: Town of Litchfield
Historical Society of Litchfield, Maine
Maine Memory Network: Litchfield
Bibliography
______, History of Litchfield and an account of its centennial celebration, 1895 (Augusta: Kennebec Journal Print, 1897)
Davis, Walter Goodwin, The ancestry of Joseph Neal, 1769-c.1835, of Litchfield, Maine (Portland, Me.: Southworth-Anthoensen Press, 1945)
Groves, Marlene A., ed., Maine Vital Records of Litchfield, transcribed (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 2010)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Webster, West Gardiner, Litchfield, and Monmouth register, 1909 (Augusta, Me.: Mitchell Pub. Co., 1909)
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