Thomaston, Knox County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Military Records · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Knox County (set off from Lincoln County in 1860)
Incorporated
1777 from part of St. George Plantation (now Cushing)
Previous Designations
Part of the Waldo Patent (Muscongus Patent); Georgeekeag; Saint George Lowertown
Boundary Changes
Part of Warren was annexed in 1798 and 1864
Land was set off to form East Thomaston (now Rockland) and South Thomaston in 1848.
Additional land was set off to East Thomaston (now Rockland) in 1849, and part of that town was annexed in 1852
Parts of Cushing were annexed in 1891 and 1909
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Thomaston, Willis Corners (Willis Corner)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Cushing, Rockland, South Thomaston, Warren
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Thomaston
Cemeteries
Knox County Cemetery Records, ca. 1800-2007
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Thomaston
Vital Records
Thomaston Marriage Intentions, 1777-1811
Miscellaneous Resources
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Thomaston, Knox, Maine
Official Website: Town of Thomaston
Maine Memory Network: Thomaston
Maine Community Heritage Project: Thomaston
Bibliography
______, A gathering of descendants of Hezekiah and Isabella Prince of Thomaston, Maine, Spencer, Massachusetts, August 20 to 30, 1891 (1891)
Bacon, George Fox, Rockland, Belfast and vicinity: its representative business men and its points of interest, embracing Rockland, Belfast, Camden, Rockport, Bucksport, Ellsworth, Thomaston, Waldoboro, Warren, Damariscotta, Wiscasset, Newcastle (Newark, N. J., Glenwood Publishing Company, 1892)
Eaton, Cyrus, History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Maine: from their first exploration, A.D. 1605: with family genealogies, Vol. 1 (Vol. 2) (Hallowell, Me.: Masters, Smith & Co., printers, 1865)
Groves, Marlene A., comp., Vital records of Thomaston, Maine (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 2002)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The Thomaston register, 1904 (Kent's Hill, Me.: H.E. Mitchell, 1904)
Packard, Aubigne Lermond, A Town That Went to Sea (Portland, Me.: Falmouth Publishing House, 1950)
Sullivan, Steven Edward, comp., Vital records from the Thomaston recorder of Thomaston, Maine, 1837-1846 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c1995)
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