Canaan, Somerset County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Vital Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Somerset County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799, to Somerset County in 1809)
Incorporated
1788 from Wesserunset Plantation
Previous Designations
Part of the Plymouth Claim (Kennebec Purchase); Heywoodstown; Howardstown; Wesserunset
Boundary Changes
Land was set off to form Bloomfield (later annexed to Skowhegan) in 1814
Land was set off to form Milburn (now Skowhegan) in 1823
Part of Warsaw (now Pittsfield) was annexed in 1824, and additional parts of that town were annexed in 1830 and 1841
Part of Hartland was annexed in 1849
One estate in Clinton was annexed in 1849, but returned in 1850 upon repeal of the act
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Browns Corner (Brown's Corner), Canaan (formerly Tuttle's Mills), East Canaan (former post office at Canaan)
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Clinton, Cornville, Hartland, Pittsfield, Skowhegan
Maps
Cemeteries
Vital Records
Deaths in Norridgewock, Canaan and Adjacent Towns Prior to 1850
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Canaan, Somerset, Maine
Official Website: Town of Canaan
Bibliography
______, The East Somerset County Register, 1911-1912 (Auburn, Me.: Chatto & Turner, 1912)
______, Records of the plantation of Canaan and the town of Canaan (Skowhegan), 1783-1821 ([S.l.: s.n., 1931?])
Hanson, J. W., History of the old towns, Norridgewock and Canaan: comprising Norridgewock, Canaan, Starks, Skowhegan and Bloomfield from their early settlement to the year 1849: including a sketch of the Abnakis Indians (Boston, Mass.: The author, 1849)
Nelson, Sally Furber, comp., Vital records of Canaan, Maine (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 2008)
Smith, Lillian Clayton, Old Canaan during the revolution (Skowhegan, Me.: Press of the Independent Reporter, 1910)
Weston, Eben, The early settlers of Canaan (typescript, written for the Somerset Reporter, 1890-1893)
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