Machias, Washington County
County · Incorporated · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Military Records · Newspapers · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Washington County (set off from Lincoln County in 1789)
Incorporated
1784 from Megeis and West Machias; name changed to West Machias upon partitioning in 1826; name changed back to Machias in 1830
Boundary Changes
Bucks Harbor Neck (now part of Machiasport) was annexed in 1811
Land was set off to form East Machias and Machiasport in 1826, Whitneyville in 1845, and Marshfield in 1846
Part of Jonesboro was annexed in 1838
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Hoyttown, Kennebec, Machias, Sylvan Park
Adjacent Towns and Townships
East Machias, Machiasport, Marshfield, Roque Bluffs, Whitneyville
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Machias
Military Records
Payroll of Indians in Defense of Machias, 1777
World War I Soldiers Index: Machias
Newspapers
Vital Records
Machias Marriage Intentions, 1805-1810
Miscellaneous Resources
Jonas Farnsworth, Ledger no. 9, 1778 (1773-1786)
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Machias, Washington, Maine
Bibliography
______, Memorial of the centennial anniversary of the settlement of Machias (Machias Me.: Printed by C.O. Furbush, 1863)
______, Ship registers and enrollments of Machias, Maine, 1780-1930 (Rockland, Me.: The National Archives Project, 1942)
Bacon, George F., Calais, Eastport and vicinity, their representative business men, and points of interest: embracing Calais, Eastport, Machias, Machiasport, Milltown, Jonesport, Princeton, Millbridge, Cherryfield and Lubec (Newark, N.J.: Glenwood Pub. Co., c1892)
Day, Clarence Albert, comp., Marriage notices from the Machias Union ([Machias, Me.?: C.A. Day, 1962-1965])
Day, Clarence Albert, comp., Death notices from the Machias Union ([Machias, Me.?: C.A. Day, 1962-1965])
Denis, Michael J., Machias, Maine, families, 1767-1827 (Oakland, Me.: Danbury House Books, 1984)
Drisko, George W., Narrative of the town of Machias: the old and the new, the early and late (Machias, Me.: Press of the Republican, 1904)
Drisko, George Washington, The Revolution; life of Hannah Weston, with a brief history of her ancestry. Also a condensed history of the first settlement of Jonesborough, Machias and other neighboring towns (Machias, Me., G. A. Parlin, 1903)
Harmon, Wade F., Index of surnames to George W. Drisko's narrative of the town of Machias, the old and the new, the early and late (Salem, Mass.: Higginson Book Co., 1995)
Hasty, Warren H., Marriage index on the History of Machias, Maine by George W. Drisko 1904 ([S.l.: W. H. Hasty], 1992)
Jackman, Beulah G., Earliest records of Machias, Maine (1767-1837) (Concord, N.H.: Published by Beulah G. Jackman, [1937?])
Sherman, Andrew M., Life of Captain Jeremiah O'Brien, Machias, Maine : commander of the first American naval flying squadron of the War of the Revolution (Morristown, N.J., 1902)
Sherman, Andrew M., The O'Briens of Machias, Me., Patriots of the American Revolution (Boston, Mass., 1904)
Switzer, Katharine C., Chief incidents in the early history of Machias (Machias, Me.: Union-Republican Press, 1929)
Thornton, J. Wingate, "Materials for a history of Machias, Maine from the town records," Historical Magazine, July and August, 1870
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