Newcastle, Lincoln County
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County
Lincoln County (set off from York County in 1760)
Incorporated
1753 as a district; incorporated 1775 as a town from Sheepscot Plantation
Previous Designations
Anciently those parts of Newcastle and Alna adjacent to the river were called Sheepscot (Sheepscot Farms), and for a brief period as New Dartmouth
Part of the town lay in the Pemaquid Patent
Boundary Changes
Land was set off to New Milford (now Alna) in 1795
Part of Jefferson was annexed in 1858
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Damariscotta Mills, East Newcastle, Newcastle, North Newcastle, Rosicrucian (former post office at South Newcastle), Rosicrucian Springs (former railroad station), Sheepscot, Sheepscot Bridge, South Newcastle, Woodbridge's Corner (former post office at North Newcastle)
The early settlement called Dyer's River was presumably in this town
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Alna, Bristol, Damariscotta, Edgecomb, Nobleboro, South Bristol, Wiscasset
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Newcastle
Census Records
Census and Valuation of Newcastle, 1783
Miscellaneous Resources
Kennebec Purchase Petitioners, 1752
Newspapers
Maine Obituaries: The Lincoln County News
Lincoln County News Digital Archives
Vital Records
Some Newcastle Vital Records, 1844-1875
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Newcastle
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Newcastle, Lincoln, Maine
Official Website: Town of Newcastle
Newcastle, Maine Historical Society
Maine Memory Network: Newcastle
Bibliography
______, Early town records of Newcastle, Maine, from June 24, 1756, to January 6, 1779: copied from the original manuscript records, now first published (Damariscotta, Me.: unknown, 1914)
______, The Petition & memorial of the towns of Bristol, Nobleborough, New-Castle, Edgcomb, and Boothbay, in the county of Lincoln, to the General Court of Massachusetts, Anno Domini, 1810 [Ancestry.com] (Boston: Printed by J. Belcher, 1811)
Bacon, George Fox, Rockland, Belfast and vicinity: its representative business men and its points of interest, embracing Rockland, Belfast, Camden, Rockport, Bucksport, Ellsworth, Thomaston, Waldoboro, Warren, Damariscotta, Wiscasset, Newcastle (Newark, N. J., Glenwood Publishing Company, 1892)
Cushman, Rev. David, "Ancient Settlement of Sheepscot," Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Vol. 4 (Portland, Me.: Published for the Society, 1856)
Cushman, David Quimby, The history of ancient Sheepscot and Newcastle: including early Pemaquid, Damariscotta, and other contiguous places, from the earliest discovery to the present time: together with the genealogy of more than four hundred families (Bath Me.: E. Upton & Son, printers, 1882)
Groves, Marlene A., Index to Rev. David Quimby Cushman's The history of ancient Sheepscot and Newcastle (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c1997)
Johnson, Alexander, "The Sheepscot Farms, and Approach from the Sea," Collections of the Maine Historical Society, First Series, Vol. 9 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1887)
Johnson, Rev. Samuel, "Account of an Ancient Settlement on Sheepscot River," Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Vol. 2 (Portland, Me.: Published for the Society, 1847)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Town register: Damariscotta, Newcastle, Bristol, Bremen, Muscongus Island 1906 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell, 1906)
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