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Belfast Academy Grant [later Ludlow]
Bridgewater Grant [later Bridgewater]
Danforth Half Township [later Danforth]
Dole Township No. 9 [later part of Haynesville and Orient]
Dyer Township No. 1, 2nd Range [T1 R2 TS]
Fowler & Eli Township No. 1, 1st Range [T1 R1 TS]
Framingham Academy Grant [later Littleton]
Hainesville [later Haynesville]
Half Township Letter A [TA R2 WELS]
Monroe Gore [evidently that part annexed to Weston]
No. 6, 2nd Range [later Carroll Plantation]
On the Aroostook River [later Caribou, Presque Isle & Fort Fairfield]
Plantation No. 14 [T14 ED BPP, No. 14 Township]
Plantation No. 17 [later Deblois]
Plantation No. 18 [T18 ED BPP]
Plantation No. 19 [T19 ED BPP]
Plantation No. 29 [later Devereaux Township]
Talmadge, Township No. 3, 2nd Range
Township No. 1, 2nd Range [later Bancroft]
Township No. 11, 1st Range [later Cary Plantation]
Township No. 11, 3rd Range [T11 R3 NBPP]
Township No. 2, 2nd Range [later Haynesville]
Township No. 21, Bingham's Purchase [later Big Lake Plantation]
Township No. 24 [later Northfield]
Township No. 3, 1st Range [later Grand Lake Stream Plantation]
Township No. 6, 2nd Range [later Carroll Plantation]
Township No. 8, 2nd Range [later Topsfield]
Township No. 9, 3rd Range [later Brookton]
Township No. 9, 4th Range [later Danforth and Forest City]
In 1837 Maine accepted its portion of a federal budget surplus, to be distributed to the towns in proportion to their population. Selectmen of the various towns were authorized to conduct censuses of all inhabitants, excepting "foreigners not naturalized, whose residence has not been established at least four years in any of the cities, towns or plantations, or any other place wherein such enumeration is to be made—and Indians not taxed." The census schedules were to list heads of households, and to "distinguish all persons under the age of four years; those of four and under twenty-one; and those of twenty-one and upwards, belonging to each city, town and plantation in this State, on the first day of March, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven."
The schedules of Bangor, Portland, Dennysville, and dozens of unincorporated townships and plantations have survived, and are indexed in this database. Names are linked to images of the original census schedules, either at FamilySearch (free registration required) or Digital Maine.
A transcription of the census schedule from Eliot will be found in the research library of the Maine Historical Society. Transcriptions of a few additional schedules may be found online:
Source: Maine Surplus Revenue Census, 1837, Maine State Archives, provided online by Digital Maine and FamilySearch.