Oxford County, Maine
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Incorporated
1805 from parts of Cumberland County and York County
Boundary Changes
Parts were lost to Somerset County in 1816 and 1823, to Franklin County in 1838, and Androscoggin County in 1854
Otisfield seceded from Cumberland County in 1978
County Seat
Paris, since 1805
The county buildings were moved from Paris Hill to South Paris in 1895
A Western District Registry of Deeds was maintained in Fryeburg from 1806 to 2019
Towns
Andover, Bethel, Brownfield, Buckfield, Byron, Canton, Denmark, Dixfield, Fryeburg, Gilead, Greenwood, Hanover, Hartford, Hebron, Hiram, Lovell, Mexico, Newry, Norway, Otisfield, Oxford, Paris, Peru, Porter, Roxbury, Rumford, Stoneham, Stow, Sumner, Sweden, Upton, Waterford, West Paris, Woodstock
Plantations
Lincoln Plantation, Magalloway Plantation
Townships
Albany Township, Andover North Surplus, Batchelders Grant, Grafton Township, Mason Township, Milton Township, Riley Township
Adjacent Counties
Androscoggin County, Carroll County (N.H.), Coos County (N.H.), Cumberland County, Franklin County, Le Granit Regional County Municipality (Quebec)
Cemeteries
The Tombstone Transcription Project: Oxford County, Maine
Church Records
Rev. William Riley French Marriage and Funeral Records (1840 to 1893)
Land Records
Oxford County Online Records (for historical records select "Early Books" from menu)
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Oxford County
Message Boards
Ancestry.com Message Board: Oxford County
Naturalization Records
Maine, County Naturalization Records, 1800-1990
Newspapers
Historic American Newspapers Directory: Oxford County
Probate Records
Oxford County Probate Estate Files, 1805-1915
Maine County Probate Records, 1760-1979
Oxford County Registry of Probate
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Oxford, Maine
Official Website: Oxford County
Oxford County MEGenWeb Project
MEGenWeb Archives: Oxford County
Bibliography
______, Biographical review; this volume contains biographical sketches of leading citizens of Oxford and Franklin counties, Maine (Biographical Review Pub. Co.: Boston, Mass., 1897)
Bennett, Randall H., Oxford County, Maine: A Guide to its Historic Architecture (Bethel, Me.: Oxford County Historic Survey, 1984)
Halfpenny, H. E, and John W. Caldwell, Atlas of Oxford County, Maine: compiled and drawn from official plans and actual surveys (Philadelphia, Pa.: Caldwell & Halfpenny, 1880)
McAllister, Donald L., and Lucille E. Nass, eds., Marriage Returns of Oxford County, Maine Prior to 1892 (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c1993)
Stone, Thomas T., Sketches of Oxford County (Portland Me.: Shirley and Hyde, 1830)
Willey, Benjamin Glazier, Incidents in White Mountain History (Portland, Me.: Francis Blake, 1858)
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