Sedgwick, Hancock County

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

County

Hancock County (set off from Lincoln County in 1789)

Incorporated

1789 from Naskeag Plantation

Previous Designations

Township No. 5 East of Penobscot River, Livermore Survey (T5 EPR LS); Township No. 5 West of Union River; Naskeag (Naskeeg, Nasket); Eggemoggin Reach

Boundary Changes

Part was set off to form Brooksville in 1817

Part was set off to Blue Hill in 1831

Port Watson (later Brooklin) was set off in 1849

Part was set off to Penobscot in 1857

Villages, Locations and Settlements

Black Corner, Grays Corner, North Sedgwick, Sargentville, Sedgwick, West Sedgwick

Bibliography

______, Sedgwick, Maine bicentennial 1763-1963, August 2-3-4 (Sedgwick, Me. : Sedgwick Maine Bicentenial Committee, [1963?])

______, Life and times in a coastal village : Sedgwick, Maine 1789-1989 ([Sedgwick, Me. : Sedgwick Bicentennial Committee, 1989])

Chatto, Clarence I., and C. E. Turner, comps., Register of the towns of Sedgwick, Brooklin, Deer Isle, Stonington, and Isle au Haut : 1910 (Auburn, Me. : Lawton Register Co., 1910)

Grindle, Barbara M., comp., A catalog listing of Sedgwick, Maine's resting places : cemeteries, burying grounds, and family plots, 1789-1999 ([S.l. : s.n.], 2000 (Blue Hill, Me. : Little Guy Press))

Grindle, Barbara M., comp., Vital records of Sedgwick, Maine (Rockport, Me.: Picton Press, c2004)

Limeburner, Grace, comp., Sedgwick, Maine, all vital statistics recorded on the town books from 1799-1809 (North Brooksville, Me.: G. Limeburner, 1942)

Limeburner, Grace, comp., Sedgwick, Maine gravestone inscriptions; all gravestone inscriptions found in the cemeteries of this town bearing date of death prior to A.D. 1875 (1941)

Limeburner, Grace M. Grindle, comp., "Brooksville, Brooklin, Sedgwick, Bluehill and Surry, Maine : notes" (typescript, 1941)