Penobscot, Hancock County
County · Incorporated · Previous Designations · Boundary Changes · Villages, Locations and Settlements · Adjacent Towns and Townships · Maps · Cemeteries · Vital Records · Miscellaneous Resources · Military Records · General Resources · Bibliography
County
Hancock County (set off from Lincoln County in 1789)
Incorporated
1787 from Majorbigwaduce Plantation
Previous Designations
Township No. 3 East of Penobscot River, Livermore Survey (T3 EPR LS); Township No. 3 West of Union River; Majorbigwaduce (Magorbigwaduce, Magabagwaduce, Maja Bagadoose, etc.)
Boundary Changes
Land was set off to form Castine in 1796, and Brooksville in 1817
Land was set off to Castine in 1817, 1839, and 1927, and to Surry in 1843
Parts of Surry and Blue Hill were annexed in 1845, and part of Sedgwick in 1857
Villages, Locations and Settlements
Marks Corner, North Penobscot, Penobscot, Penobscot Center (former post office), South Penobscot, West Penobscot
Adjacent Towns and Townships
Blue Hill, Brooksville, Castine, Orland, Sedgwick, Stockton Springs, Surry, Verona Island
Maps
Maine Historical Maps: Penobscot
Cemeteries
Vital Records
Penobscot, Maine Vital Records
Miscellaneous Resources
Magorbigwaduce Petitioners, 1763
Petition for the Incorporation of Penobscot, 1785
Some Residents of Castine and Penobscot, 1785-1790
Military Records
World War I Soldiers Index: Penobscot
General Resources
FamilySearch Catalog: Penobscot, Hancock, Maine
Official Website: Town of Penobscot
Maine Memory Network: Penobscot
Bibliography
______, Vital statistics, copied from town records, Penobscot, Maine, 1787, date of incorporation, to 1875 (North Brooksville, Me.: Brooksville Historical Society, 1940)
Doudiet, Ellenore, Majabigwaduce : Castine, Penobscot, Brooksville (Castine, Me. : Castine Scientific Society, 1978)
Hoffmann, Donna, comp., Penobscot vital records 1700-1890 (Brewer, Me.: Cay-Bel Publishing Co., 1984)
Mitchell, Frederick B., Penobscot Bicentennial, 1787-1987 ([Penobscot, Me. : Penobscot Historical Society?, 1987])
Mitchell, H. E., The town register, Islesboro, Castine, Penobscot, Brooksville, 1906 [Ancestry.com] (Brunswick, Me.: H.E. Mitchell Co., 1906)
Montgomery, Job Herrick, Address of J.H. Montgomery, Esq. : at the centennial celebration of the town of Penobscot, September 14, 1887 (Camden [Me.] : Herald Print, 1887)
Wheeler, George Augustus, History of Castine, Penobscot, and Brooksville, Maine; including the ancient settlement of Pentagöet (Bangor, Me.: Burr & Robinson, 1875)
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