Phillips, Franklin County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Vital Records · Military Records · Newspapers · Miscellaneous Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Franklin County (set off from Lincoln County to Kennebec County in 1799 (declared part of Kennebec County in 1805), to Somerset County in 1809, to Franklin County in 1838)
Incorporated
1812 from Curvo Plantation
Previous Designations
Township No. 3 Abbot's Purchase (T3 AP); Township No. 3 on Sandy River; Curvo
Boundary Changes
Land was set off to form North Salem (now Salem Township) in 1823
Part of the former town of Berlin (formerly Township No. 6 Abbot's Purchase, incorporated in 1824) was annexed upon its deorganization in 1842; the remainder became Township 6 North of Weld
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Bragg Corner (former railroad station), Butterfield, Madrid Junction, Phillips
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Avon, Freeman Township, Madrid Township, Salem Township, Township 6 North of Weld, Weld
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Phillips
Cemeteries
Vital Records
Berlin Marriages and Marriage Intentions, 1822-1841
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Phillips
Newspapers
Miscellaneous Records
Town of Phillips School Record Book (1821-1841)
Town of Berlin Treasurer's Record Book
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Phillips, Franklin, Maine
Official Website: Town of Phillips
Maine Memory Network: Phillips
Bibliography
______, Inventory of the town and city archives of Maine: no. 4 Franklin County, vols. I & II: Avon and Berlin (Portland, Me.: The Project, 1939)
______, Phillips: 175 years, 1812-1987 ([Phillips, ME]: Phillips Historical Society, 1987)
Pease, Albert, Sketches of the history of Phillips, Maine: Written for the "Farmington chronicle," Feb. 18, 1869 with a ten-year supplement by the same author in 1879 ([Phillips]: Phillips Historical Society, [1962?])
Sedgeley, George Burbank, Micah Whitney, Revolutionary soldier and his twelve children settled early in Phillips, Maine (Farmington, Me.: Knowlton & McLeary Co., 1943)
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