Dearborn, Kennebec County, Maine Genealogy

United States Maine  Kennebec and Somerset Dearborn

Dearborn is an extinct town and plantation, now split among the towns of Rome, Belgrade, and Oakland in Kennebec County, and the towns of Fairfield, Smithfield, and Mercer 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 in 1815, 1822, and 1826; land set off to Belgrade 1834 and 1839; and land set off to Smithfield 1840. Dearborn surrendered its town status in 1841 and became a plantation, which was annexed by Waterville, Maine in 1843.


 * 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)..