Kittery, York County

County · Incorporated · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Prominent Islands · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Cemeteries · Church Records · Maps · Military Records · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · General Resources · Bibliography

County

York County

Incorporated

1647 as Piscataqua Plantation

Incorporated

1652 from a portion of Piscataqua Plantation upon submission to Massachusetts (confirmed in 1653)

Previous Designations

The lower part of town was anciently known as Piscataqua, the upper as Newichawannock

Boundary Changes

Isles of Shoals (incorporated in part as Appledore in 1661, named changed to Isles of Shoales in 1665) was annexed in 1696

Upper Kittery was set off to form Berwick in 1713

Part of Berwick was annexed in 1716

The North Parish of Kittery was set off to become Eliot in 1810

Washington Remick's estate was set off to Eliot in 1826, and set off again in 1829 after the first act was repealed

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Admiralty Village, Bedell Crossing, Braveboat Harbor, Briggs Corner, Crooked Lane (former location), Foreside (former post office at Kittery), Kittery, Kittery Foreside, Kittery Junction (former railroad station), Kittery Point, Oak Terrace, Pepperell Cove

Prominent Islands

Cutts Island, Gerrish Island (formerly known, with Cutts Island, as Champernowne Island), Isles of Shoals (Appledore Island, Duck Island, Cedar Island, and Smuttynose Island), Seavey Island

Adjacent Towns and Townships

Eliot, Portsmouth (N.H.), York

Bibliography

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______, Old Kittery, 1647-1947 [Ancestry.com] (Kittery, Me.: Piscataqua Press, c1947)

Anderson, Joseph Crook, II, and Lois Ware Thurston, comp., Vital records of Kittery, Maine to the year 1892 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 1991)

Barker, Elizabeth Frye, Frye genealogy; Adrian of Kittery, Me., John of Andover, Mass., Joshua of Virginia, Thomas of Rhode Island (New York, N. Y.: T. A. Wright, printer, 1920)

Bartlett, Ralph Sylvester, The history of York county, Maine, and a rambling narrative about the town of Eliot and its mother-town old Kittery with personal reminiscences; an address delivered by Ralph Sylvester Bartlett at exercises held in Eliot, Maine, August 29, 1936, in commemoration of the 300th anniversary of the founding of York county in the province of Maine (Boston: Jerome Press, c1938)

Burrage, Rev. Henry S., "The Baptist Church in Kittery," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 9 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1898)

DeCosta, Benjamin F., Sketches of the Coast of Maine and Isles of Shoals, with Historical Notes (New York, N. Y.: 1869)

Dildilian, Martha S., Descendants of David Staples (1764-1820) of Kittery, Maine (West Hartford, Conn.: Chedwato Service, 1956)

Dunkle, Robert J., and Valerie Ruocco, "Parish Records of the First Church and Society of Kittery, Maine," New England Historical and Genealogical Register, vol. 151 (Boston, Mass.: The Society, 1997)

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Mitchell, Jeannette Gordon, Kittery Men & Women in World War II (Kittery, Me.: Kittery Press, 1947)

Montegeu, M. Tzl., Ancient and modern Isles of Shoals: from their first discovery to the present time (Boston, Mass.: G.A. Emery, 1872)

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Remick, Oliver P., A record of the services of the commissioned officers and enlisted men of Kittery and Eliot, Maine: who served their country on land and sea in the American Revolution, from 1775 to 1783 (Boston: A. Mudge & Son, printers, [1901])

Safford, Moses A., "Historic Homes of Kittery," Collections and Proceedings of the Maine Historical Society, Second Series, Vol. 5 (Portland, Me.: The Society, 1894)

Scales, John, ed., Piscataqua pioneers, 1623-1775; register of members and ancestors (Dover, N.H.: Press of C.F. Whitehouse, 1919)

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Wilson, Fred A., The early history of the Wilson family of Kittery, Maine (Lynn, Mass.: John MacFarland & Co., 1898)