Dearborn, Kennebec County, Maine Genealogy

United States Maine  Kennebec and Somerset Dearborn

Dearborn is an extinct town and plantation, now split into part of the towns of Belgrade, and Oakland in Kennebec County, and the town of Smithfield in Somerset County. The town of Dearborn was first settled in 1782, and formed from the West Pond Plantation in 1812. Dearborn land was set off to Waterville (later to become part of Oakland) in 1815, 1822, and 1826; set off to Belgrade 1834 and 1839; and set off to Smithfield 1840. The remainder of Dearborn surrendered its town status in 1841 and became a plantation, which in 1843 was annexed by Waterville, Maine. Then, in 1873 Waterville set off land to form what is now Oakland.


 * Mabel R. Whiting, and Georgiana Hewins Lilly, Records of Dearborn Maine (Winthrop, Me.: Daughters of the American Revolution, Patience Stanley Chapter, D.A.R., 1937)..