Sumner, Oxford County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Census Records · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Oxford County (set off from Cumberland County in 1805)
Incorporated
1798 from West Butterfield Plantation
Previous Designations
The westerly parts of Townships No. 6 and No. 7; West Butterfield
Boundary Changes
Parts of Plantation No. 2 (later Franklin Plantation, now part of Peru) were annexed in 1838 and 1844, and part of that plantation was annexed in 1863
Land was set off to Buckfield in 1856
"By an act of the legislature this year [1865], Stephen Spaulding of Sumner, together with his real estate, was set off from that town and annexed to Buckfield." [Cole and Whitman, History of Buckfield (1915), p. 427] As Spaulding was enumerated in Buckfield in 1860, it is possible that the 1856 annexation is here referred to
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Barrett (former post office), East Sumner, Redding, Sumner, West Sumner (historically Jackson Village)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Buckfield, Hartford, Peru, West Paris, Woodstock
Maps
Census Records
1837 Maine Surplus Revenue Census (Township No. 2)
Vital Records
Some Sumner Vital Records, 1834-1878
Miscellaneous Resources
Voters in West Butterfield (Later Sumner), 1797
History of the Sumner and Hartford Baptist Church
History of the West Sumner Baptist Church
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Sumner
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Sumner, Oxford, Maine
Official Website: Town of Sumner
Bibliography
______, Centennial History of the Town of Sumner, Me., 1798-1898 (West Sumner Me.: C.E. Handy, Jr., 1899)
______, "Old Sumner's Jubilee," Lewiston Saturday Journal, June 11, 1898
Aydelott, Kathrine C., "Darius Andrews of Sumner, Maine: A Descent from Henry Andrews of Taunton, Massachusetts" (University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository, 2022)
Aydelott, Kathrine C., "Darius Andrews of Sumner, Maine: An Update" (University of New Hampshire Scholars' Repository, 2023)
Healy, George R., Sumner: Portrait of a Small Maine Town (Town of Sumner, 1998)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, Woodstock, Sumner and Buckfield Town Register, 1905 (Brunswick, Me., The H. E. Mitchell co., 1905)
Morrill, Laura, "Maine Cemetery Where Lies a Bodyguard of Washington: Other Quaint Tombstones Point Out the Graves of the Pioneer Settlers in this Old Sumner Graveyard," Lewiston Journal Magazine Section, 23 Oct. 1926
Pulsifer, William E., Ancestry and descendants of Jonathan Pulsifer and his wife, Nancy Ryerson Pulsifer of Poland and Sumner, Maine (New York, N.Y., 1928)
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