Camden, Knox County, Maine Genealogy

Town Clerk
Camden Town Clerk 29 Elm Street Camden, Maine 04843 Telephone: (207) 236-3353, ext 118 Fax: (207) 236-7956 E-mail: [mailto:koakes@camdenmaine.gov koakes@camdenmaine.gov] Website

Brief History
Megunticook Plantation was organized from part of the Waldo Patent, also known as the Muscongus Patent. And Camden Plantation, also spelled Cambden, existed prior to 1791 when it was used to form the new town of Cambden (later Camden). Camden set off land a month later, and more again two years later to the town of Rockport, Maine. Camden annexed land from Warren in 1836.

What is now Camden was apparently formed in what was then Hancock County, Maine. Later in 1791 it was returned to Lincoln County. In 1827 it was set off to Waldo County, and in 1860 to Knox County, where it is today.

Town Histories
Reuel Robinson, History of Camden and Rockport, Maine (Camden, Maine : Camden Publishing Company, c1907). ..

Vital Records

 * Marlene A. Groves, Vital records of Camden/Rockport, Maine (Rockland, Maine : Picton Press, c2006). ..
 * Jacqueline Young Watts, and Isabel Morse Maresh, Camden-Rockport, Maine : births, deaths and marriages (Lincolnville, Maine : J &amp; I History Press, c1985). ..

Town Records
Camden town records are preserved at Rockport, Maine. A microfilm copy is available from Family History Centers on including town records 1791-1818; warnings out of town; minutes of town meetings; roads; strays; deaths 1835-1891; boundaries; accounts; list of jurors; intentions of marriage 1790-1844; marriage records 1792-1841; family records listing births and deaths; Intentions of marriage and marriage records 1844-1891.