Maine Places

County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Prominent Islands · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography 

County

Cumberland County (set off from York County in 1760)

Incorporated

1789 from part of North Yarmouth and a tract known as Prout's Gore lying between Brunswick and North Yarmouth

Previous Designations

Harraseeket (Aresiket, Arisicket, Harriseket, Harricissecke, etc.)

Boundary Changes

Land was set off to Brunswick in 1790, 1833, 1839, and 1850

Land was set off to form Pownal in 1808

Prominent Islands

Bustins Island (formerly Bibbers Island)

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Cushing Briggs, Flying Point, Freeport, Mast Landing, Pleasant Hill, Porter Landing (Porters Landing), Seekit (former post office on Bustins Island), South Freeport, Todds Corners, Wardtown

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Brunswick, Chebeague Island, Durham, Harpswell, Pownal, Yarmouth

Maps

Maine Historical Maps: Freeport

Vital Records

Freeport Publishments, 1789-1801

Miscellaneous Resources

Freeport Town Officers, 1789-1940

Freeport Road Tax List By District for Year 1812 (PDF)

Freeport Road Tax List By District for Year 1813 (PDF)

Freeport Road Tax List By District for Year 1814 (PDF)

Military Records

World War I Soldiers Index: Freeport

General Resources

FamilySearch Catalog: Freeport, Cumberland, Maine

Official Website: Town of Freeport

Digital Maine: Freeport Book Collection

Maine Memory Network: Freeport

Bibliography

See also Maine State Documents: Freeport Book Collection

______, Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine (vols. 1-2) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1877-78)

______, Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine (vols. 3-4) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1879-80)

______, Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine (vols. 5-6) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1881-82)

______, Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine (vols. 7-8) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1883-85)

______, The Westcustogo chronicle (vol. 1, no. 1) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1885)

______, 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)

______, Publishments of the Town of Freeport : intentions of marriages entered upon town records, Town of Freeport, Maine (commencing with the incorporation of the town in 1789) (From the Salem Press Historical and Genealogical Record, Oct., 1890)

______, East suburban directory: for Falmouth, Cumberland, Chebeague Island, Yarmouth, North Yarmouth and Freeport, 1906-7 (Portland, Me.: Clark-Delano Co., 1906)

______, Portland Suburban Directory, 1925-26: Including the towns of Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Falmouth, Freeport, Gray, New Gloucester, North Yarmouth, Pownal, Scarborough, Yarmouth (Portland, Me.: Crowley & Lunt, 1925)

______, Portland Suburban Directory, 1942-43: Including the towns of Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Falmouth, Freeport, Gray, North Yarmouth, Pownal, Scarborough, Yarmouth (Portland, Me.: Crowley & Lunt, 1942)

Banks, Charles Edward, The Soule family of North Yarmouth and Freeport, Maine (Yarmouth, Me.: "Old Times" Office, 1882)

Dennison, A. L., The Dennison family of North Yarmouth and Freeport, Maine: descended from George Dennison, 1699-1747, of Annisquam, Mass. (Exeter, N.H.: A.L. Dennison, 1906)

Mitchell, H. E., The Freeport register, 1904 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Pub. Co., 1904)

Richardson, George B., History of Bustins Island, Casco Bay, 1660-1960 (1960)

Thurston, Florence G., Three Centuries of Freeport, Maine (Freeport, Me.: unknown, 1940)