Wells, York County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Prominent Islands · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Church Records · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Incorporated
1647 (submitted to Massachusetts in 1652, and confirmed in 1653)
Previous Designations
Preston; Nampscoscocke; Nimscoscook; Nemscossecke; Minchassett; Niscassett; Webhannet (Webbannet)
Boundary Changes
Kennebunk was set off in 1820, Ogunquit in 1980
Part of Kennebunk was annexed in 1868
Prominent Islands
Drakes Island (Drake Island)
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Bald Hill Crossing, Buffam Hill, Charles Chase Corner, Chicks (former railroad station), Cozy Corners, Drakes Island, Elms, Grays Corner, Highpine (formerly Wells Depot), Hobbs Crossing, Merryland (former location), Moody, Moody Beach, Moody Point, Parsonage Corner, Perkins Town, Saywards Corner, Tatnic (Tatnick), Webhannet, Wells Beach, Wells Branch
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Kennebunk, North Berwick, Ogunquit, Sanford, South Berwick
Maps
Cemeteries
Inscriptions From the Old Graveyard in Wells
Church Records
Wells, Maine. First Church Records, 1701-1848
Records of the First Church of Christ in Wells, Maine, 1701-1811
Records of the First Church of Christ in Wells, Maine, 1701-1811
Miscellaneous Resources
Negro Slaves and Servants of Wells
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Wells
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Wells, York, Maine
Official Website: Town of Wells
Bibliography
Bourne, Edward E., The history of Wells and Kennebunk: from the earliest settlement to the year 1820, at which time Kennebunk was set off, and incorporated: with biographical sketches (Vol. 2) (Portland Me.: B. Thurston & Co., 1875)
Cushing, James R., Historical discourse: delivered Oct. 29, 1851, at the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the organization of the First Congregational church, (the second in the state,) in Wells, Maine (Portland, Me., 1851)
Hubbard, Jeremiah, and Jonathan Greenleaf, "An Account of Wells," Collections of the Maine Historical Society, First Series, Vol. 1 (Portland, Me.: Bailey & Noyes, 1865)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The town register: Kennebunk and Wells, 1905 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1905)
Perkins, Thomas Allen, Jacob Perkins of Wells, Maine and his descendants, 1583-1936 (Haverhill, Mass.: Record Pub. Co., 1947)
Shelley, Hope Moody, comp., Vital records of Wells, Maine, 1619-1950: including Ogunquit and Kennebunk until 1820 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 2005)
Stewart, George Sawin, comp., "Records of the First Church of Wells, Me.," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 75 & vol. 76 (Boston, Mass.: The Society, 1921-22)
Wells, Charles Kimball, Genealogy of the Wells family, of Wells, Maine (Milwaukee, Wisc.: Press of Burdick & Armitage, 1874)
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