Somerset County, Maine Genealogy

United States Maine  Somerset County

Guide to Somerset County Maine genealogy. Birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, family history, and military records.

County Courthouse
Clerk Courts has some marriage records from 1800’s and proabte records from 1809.

Parent County
Created 1 March 1809 from Kennebec County.

Boundary Changes

 * Parts set off to create 2 counties:
 * Franklin County 20 March 1838.
 * Piscataquis County 23 March 1838.
 * Part taken to add to Aroostook County 12 March 1844.

Places / Localities
Towns

Plantations:  Brighton Plantation | Dennistown | Highland Plantation | Pleasant Ridge Plantation | The Forks Plantation | West Forks. For further details see Maine plantations.

Unorganized territories. BKP=Bingham's Kennebec Purchase; EKR=East of the Kennebec River; NBKP=North of Bingham's Kennebec Purchase; Twp=Township; WELS=West of the Easterly Line of the State; WKR=West of the Kennebec River. For further details see Maine townships.


 * Central Somerset
 * Concord
 * Twp 2 R1 BKP WKR (Lexington)
 * Northeast Somerset
 * Twp 2 R2 BKP EKR (Mayfield)
 * Twp 2 R3 BKP EKR (Bald Mtn)
 * Twp 2 R4 BKP EKR (East Moxie)
 * Twp 2 R5 BKP EKR (Squaretown)
 * Twp 1 R5 BKP EKR (Moxie Gore)
 * Twp 1 R6 BKP EKR (Indian Stream)
 * Twp 1 R6 BKP WKR (Chase Stream &amp; 10,000 Acre Tract)
 * Twp 2 R6 BKP WKR (Johnson Mtn)
 * Twp 1 R7 BKP WKR (Saplin)
 * Twp 2 R7 BKP WKR (Misery)
 * Twp 3 R7 BKP WKR (Parlin Pond)
 * Misery Gore
 * Sandbar Tract
 * Twp 1 R1 NBKP (Taunton &amp; Raynham)
 * Twp 2 R1 NBKP (Sandwich Academy Grant)
 * Twp 2 Twp 1 R1 NBKP (Rockwood Strip)
 * Twp 3 R1 NBKP (Long Pond)
 * Twp 1 R2 NBKP (Tomhegan)
 * Twp 2 R2 NBKP (Brassua)
 * Northwest Somerset
 * Twp 1 R3 BKP WKR (Carrying Place)
 * Twp 2 R3 BKP WKR (Carrying Place Town)
 * Twp 3 R3 BKP WKR (Dead River)
 * Twp 4 R3 BKP WKR (Bigelow)
 * Twp 1 R4 BKP WKR (Bowtown)
 * Twp 2 R4 BKP WKR (Pierce Ponds)
 * Twp 3 R4 BKP WKR (Spring Lake)
 * Twp 4 R4 BKP WKR (Flagstaff)
 * Twp 2 R5 BKP WKR (Lower Enchanted)
 * Twp 3 R5 BKP WKR (Spencer)
 * Twp 4 R5 BKP WKR (King &amp; Bartlett)
 * Twp 3 R6 BKP WKR (Upper Enchanted)
 * Twp 4 R6 BKP WKR (Hobbstown)
 * Twp 5 R6 BKP WKR (Haynestown)
 * Twp 4 R7 BKP WKR (Bradstreet)
 * Twp 5 R7 BKP WKR (Rayton)
 * Twp 6 R6 BKP WKR (Appleton)
 * Township 5 R1 NBKP (Attean Pond)
 * Township 6 R1 NBKP (Holeb)
 * Township 6 R2 NBKP (Forsyth)
 * Seboomook Lake
 * Township 3 R2 NBKP (Thorndike)
 * Little W, NBKP
 * Big W, NBKP
 * Twp 1 R3 NBKP (West Middlesex Canal Grant)
 * Township 2 R3 NBKP (Soldiertown)
 * Township 3 R3 NBKP (Alder Brook)
 * Township 4 R3 NBKP (Bald Mountain)
 * Township 5 R3 NBKP (Sandy Bay)
 * Township Seboomook R4 NBKP
 * Township 1 R4 NBKP (Plymouth or Boyd)
 * Twp 2 R4 NBKP (Pittston Academy Grant)
 * Township 3 R4 NBKP (Hammond)
 * Township 4 R4 NBKP (Prentiss)
 * Township 5 R4 NBKP (Blake Gore)
 * Township 4 R16 WELS (Elm Stream)
 * Township 4 R17 WELS
 * Township 4 R18 WELS (Comstock)
 * Township 3 R5 NBKP (Dole Brook)


 * Township 4 R5 NBKP
 * Township 5 R16 WELS (Russell Pond)
 * Township 5 R17 WELS
 * Township 5 R18 WELS
 * Township 5 R19 WELS
 * Township 5 R20 WELS
 * Township 6 R16 WELS (Saint John)
 * Township 6 R17 WELS
 * Township 6 R18 WELS
 * Township 6 R19 WELS (Big 6)
 * Township 7 R16 WELS
 * Township 7 R17 WELS
 * Township 7 R18 WELS
 * Township 7 R19 WELS
 * Township 8 R16 WELS
 * Township 8 R17 WELS
 * Township 8 R18 WELS
 * Township 8 R19 WELS
 * Township 9 R16 WELS
 * Township 9 R17 WELS
 * Township 9 R18 WELS
 * Township 10 R16 WELS
 * Township 10 R17 WELS (Big 10)

Communities

Villages:   • Flagstaff   • North Anson

Extinct or unincorporated towns  • Central Somerset   • Concord   • Northeast Somerset   • Northwest Somerset   • Seboomook Lake

Neighboring Counties
Aroostook | Franklin | Kennebec | Penobscot | Piscataquis | Waldo | Quebec counties: Beauce | Bellechasse | Dorchester | Frontenac

Newspapers
Maine Newspaper Archive Indexes Free; Digital Page Images $ (GenealogyBank $) Twenty-two early Maine 18th and 19th century newspapers, 1785-1898 online. Indexes (free); digital images ($). These newspapers are from Augusta, Bangor, Belfast, Brunswick, Castine, Eastport, Falmouth, Hallowell, Kennebunk, Portland, Saco and Wiscasset.

Early Maine newspapers routinely reported on news, obituaries, births, marriages etc. from around the state. Be sure to search the indexes for all Maine newspapers to find your target ancestor.

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers

Web Sites

 * The Somerset County MEGenWeb Project, an member of The MEGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Somerset County
 * The USGenWeb Archives Project for Somerset County (backup site)
 * Family History Library catalog for Somerset County