Eliot, York County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Incorporated
1810 from part of Kittery
Previous Designations
Sturgeon Creek; North Parish of Kittery
Boundary Changes
Washington Remick's estate in Kittery was annexed in 1826, and reannexed in 1829 after the first act was repealed
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Crams Corner, East Eliot, East Elliott (former post office at Eliot), Eliot, Elliott Depot (former post office at Eliot), Gould Corner, Green Acre (Greenacre), Kennard Corner, Langleys Crossing (former location on railroad), Rosemary, South Eliot, Tobeys Corner
The riverfront below Sturgeon Creek was anciently called Cold Harbor (Cole Harbor, Coole Harbor)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Dover (N.H.), Newington (N.H.), Portsmouth (N.H.), Kittery, South Berwick, York
Maps
Miscellaneous Resources
Valuation List for Upper Part of Kittery (Now Eliot), 1776
Tax List for North Parish of Kittery, 1783
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Eliot
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Eliot, York, Maine
Official Website: Town of Eliot
Bibliography
______, Eliot miscellany. Bits of forgotten history (1876)
______, Exercises of the Eliot Historical Society on Monday the fifth of July, 1897, in commemoration of Major Charles Frost: on the two hundredth anniversary of his massacre by the Indians, Sunday, July fourth, 1697 (Eliot, Me.: The Society?, 1897)
______, Genealogy of the Frost family, Elliot, York County, Maine
Bartlett, Ralph Sylvester, The history of York county, Maine, and a rambling narrative about the town of Eliot and its mother-town old Kittery with personal reminiscences; an address delivered by Ralph Sylvester Bartlett at exercises held in Eliot, Maine, August 29, 1936, in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of York county in the province of Maine (Boston: Jerome Press, c1938)
Cole, Aaron B., and J. L. M. Willis, ed., History of the centennial of the incorporation of the town of Eliot, Maine: August 7th-13th, 1910 (Eliot, Me.: A. Caldwell, 1912)
Frost, John Eldridge, comp., "Capt. Elisha Goodwin's Record Book," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 97 (Boston, Mass.: The Society, 1943) [Contains records of some births and many deaths that occurred in Eliot and surrounding towns, 1820-1840]
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Eliot register, 1904 (Kent's Hill, Me.: H. E. Mitchell, 1904)
Remick, Oliver P., A record of the services of the commissioned officers and enlisted men of Kittery and Eliot, Maine: who served their country on land and sea in the American Revolution, from 1775 to 1783 (Boston: A. Mudge & Son, printers, [1901])
Scales, John, ed., Piscataqua pioneers, 1623-1775; register of members and ancestors (Dover, N.H.: Press of C.F. Whitehouse, 1919)
Willis, John L. M., The Physicians of Eliot, Maine (Eliot, Me.: Augustine Caldwell, printer, 1907)
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