Maine GenealogyJay, Franklin County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Military Records · Miscellaneous Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Franklin County (set off from Cumberland County to Oxford County in 1805 (affirmed part of Oxford County in 1808), to Franklin County in 1838)
Incorporated
1795 from Phipps Canada Plantation
Previous Designations
Rockomeeko (Rockmeeko, Rockameeko, Rockamecco, Arrockaumecook); Phipps Canada
Boundary Changes
Part of Letter A was annexed in 1810
Land was set off to form Canton in 1821; part of that town was annexed in 1823, returned in 1824
Parts of Canton were annexed in 1824 and 1831
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Beans Corner (Bean's Corner, Beans Corners), Chisholm (formerly Otis Falls), Jay, Jay Bridge (former railroad station), Kennedys Corners, North Jay, Riley (formerly Peterson's Rips), Stones Corner
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Canton, Chesterville, Dixfield, Livermore, Livermore Falls, Wilton
Maps
Cemeteries
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Jay
Miscellaneous Records
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Jay, Franklin, Maine
Bibliography
Cushman, Helen Caldwell, Horizons unlimited: a history of Jay ([Maine]: the author, 1967)
Labonté, Youville, comp., Marriages of St. Rose De Lima, Jay, Me. 1885-1982: and of St. Francis Xavier, Winthrop, Me. 1910-1983 (Lewiston, Me.: Y. LaBonte, 1984)
Lawrence, Benjamin F., History of Jay, Franklin County, Maine (Boston, Mass.: Griffith-Stillings Press, 1912)
Mitchell, H. E., The Jay register, 1905 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1905)
Mitchell, Harry Edward, et al., comp., The town register, East Livermore, Livermore, Jay, 1909 (Augusta, Me.: Mitchell Pub. Co., 1909)
Moulton, Virginia Plaisted, A History of Jay, Maine from its Settlement as Phips, Canada (Camden, Me.: Penobscot Press, c1995)
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