North Yarmouth, Cumberland County

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County

Cumberland County (set off from York County in 1760)

Incorporated

1683

Previous Designations

Wescustogo; Casco Bay

Boundary Changes

Adjacent unincorporated land was annexed in 1734

Mere Point was set off to Brunswick in 1739, and Merriconeag Neck (later Harpswell) was annexed by that town in 1740

Small Point (now part of Phippsburg) was set off to Georgetown in 1741

Land was set off to form Freeport in 1789, Cumberland in 1821, and Yarmouth in 1849

Land was set off to form Pownal in 1813, and part of that town was annexed in 1816

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Crockett Corner, Crockett's Corner (former post office), Dunns Corner, Mill Road (former railroad station), North Yarmouth, Walnut Hill

______, Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine (vols. 1-2) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1877-78)

______, Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine (vols. 3-4) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1879-80)

______, Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine (vols. 5-6) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1881-82)

______, Old Times in North Yarmouth, Maine (vols. 7-8) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1883-85)

______, The Westcustogo chronicle (vol. 1, no. 1) (Yarmouth, Me.: A.W. Corliss, 1885)

______, East suburban directory: for Falmouth, Cumberland, Chebeague Island, Yarmouth, North Yarmouth and Freeport, 1906-7 (Portland, Me.: Clark-Delano Co., 1906)

______, Portland Suburban Directory, 1925-26: Including the towns of Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Falmouth, Freeport, Gray, New Gloucester, North Yarmouth, Pownal, Scarborough, Yarmouth (Portland, Me.: Crowley & Lunt, 1925)

______, Portland Suburban Directory, 1942-43: Including the towns of Cape Elizabeth, Cumberland, Falmouth, Freeport, Gray, North Yarmouth, Pownal, Scarborough, Yarmouth (Portland, Me.: Crowley & Lunt, 1942)

Banks, Charles Edward, The Soule family of North Yarmouth and Freeport, Maine (Yarmouth, Me.: "Old Times" Office, 1882)

Bennett, Thomas C., comp., Vital records from town reports of North Yarmouth, Maine: 1893-1963 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, [2004])

Dennison, A. L., The Dennison family of North Yarmouth and Freeport, Maine: descended from George Dennison, 1699-1747, of Annisquam, Mass. (Exeter, N.H.: A.L. Dennison, 1906)

Humphrey, James J., Humphrey family of Yarmouth and North Yarmouth, Maine (Yarmouth, Me.: Old Times Office, 1881)

Lane, James Pillsbury James Lane of North Yarmouth, Me. and his descendants (Reprinted from the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Apr. 1888)

Leighton, Nellie Smith, comp., Addendum to North Yarmouth, Maine vital records to 1850 (Warwick, R.I.: Rhode Island Mayflower Descendants, c1986)

Merrill, Lincoln J., Jr., From Corner to Depot: A History of East North Yarmouth

Mitchell, H. E., The Cumberland and No. Yarmouth register, 1904 (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Pub. Co., 1904)

Morris, John Emery, The Felt genealogy: a record of the descendants of George Felt of Casco Bay (Hartford, Conn.: Case, Lockwood & Brainard, 1893)

Rowe, William Hutchinson, Yarmouth personages, an introduction: An attempt to revive the memory of individuals whose names were once household words in old North Yarmouth and Yarmouth (1910)

Rowe, William Hutchinson, Ancient North Yarmouth and Yarmouth, Maine, 1636-1936: a history (Yarmouth, Me.: unknown, 1937)

Russell, Edward, "History of North Yarmouth," Collections of the Maine Historical Society, Vol. 2 (Portland, Me.: Published for the Society, 1847)

Sherman, Ruth Wilder, comp., Vital records of North Yarmouth, Maine to the year 1850 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, 1993)

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