Castine, Hancock County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Prominent Islands · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Newspapers · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Hancock County (set off from Lincoln County in 1789)
Incorporated
1796 from part of Penobscot
Previous Designations
Pentagoet (Pentagöet); Bagaduce (Biguyduce, Majorbagaduce, Majorbigwaduce, etc.)
Boundary Changes
Land was set off to form Brooksville in 1817
Parts of Penobscot were annexed in 1817, 1839, and 1927
Prominent Islands
Holbrook Island
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Castine, North Castine, West Castine
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Brooksville, Penobscot, Stockton Springs
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Castine
Newspapers
Vital Records
Marriages by Col. Gabriel Johonnot of Castine, 1787-1788
Miscellaneous Resources
Magorbigwaduce Petitioners, 1763
Petition for the Incorporation of Penobscot, 1785
Some Residents of Castine and Penobscot, 1785-1790
Eastern State Normal School Students, 1908-1909
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Castine
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Castine, Hancock, Maine
Official Website: Town of Castine
Bibliography
______, The Centennial of Castine : an account of the exercises at the celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the incorporation of the town, July 9th, 1896 (Castine, Me : [s. n.], 1896)
Adams, George Moulton, Castine sixty years ago: a historical address delivered in connection with Old Home Week in Castine, Maine, Sunday evening, August 12, 1900 (Boston, Mass.: Press of S. Usher, 1900)
Devereux, Charlene, Castine Then's and Now's : Tales of Old Castine (1966)
Doudiet, Ellenore, Majabigwaduce : Castine, Penobscot, Brooksville (Castine, Me. : Castine Scientific Society, 1978)
Koffman, Virginia W., Town of Castine : Record of Births (1981)
Koffman, Virginia W., Castine Record of Births & Depositions (1981)
Limeburner, Grace M. Grindle, The folks from Majorbigwaduce (N. Brooksville, Me. : G.M.G. Limeburner, [1949?])
Limeburner, Grace, Castine, Maine: a copy of the vital statistics found on the records of the town of Castine from A.D. 1796 (date of incorporation) to Jan. 1, 1817: a period of twenty years (N. Brooksville, Me.: G. Limeburner, [1947?])
Mitchell, H. E., The town register, Islesboro, Castine, Penobscot, Brooksville, 1906 [Ancestry.com] (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1906)
Parker, Arlita Dodge, A History of Pemaquid; with Sketches of Monhegan, Popham and Castine (Boston, Mass.: MacDonald & Evans, 1925)
Thomes, Sidney Phoenix, Jr., The Descendants of Thomas Thombs (1799-1859) of Castine, Maine : Being Volume 1 of a Series Concerning the Ancestors and Descendants of Arthur Parker Thomes and Clara Strong Phoenix, His Wife ([Pensacola Beach, Fla.], 1980)
Upham, F. K., Genealogy and family history of the Uphams of Castine, Maine, and Dixon, Illinois: with genealogical notes of Brooks, Kidder, Perkins, Cutler, Ware, Avery, Curtis, Little, Warren, Southworth and other families (Newark, N.J.: unknown, 1887)
Wheeler, George Augustus, History of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, Maine; including the ancient settlement of Pentagöet (Bangor, Me.: Burr & Robinson, 1875)
Wheeler, George Augustus, Castine, past and present: the ancient settlement of Pentagöet and the modern town (Boston, Mass.: Rockwell and Churchill Press, 1896)
Whitney, Henry Austin, Incidents in the life of Samuel Whitney: born in Marlborough, Massachusetts, 1734, died at Castine, Maine, 1808: together with some account of his descendants, and other family memorials (Boston, Mass.: Printed for private distribution, 1860)
Wick, James H., comp., Vital records of Castine, Maine (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 2009)
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