Williamsburg, Piscataquis County, Maine Genealogy

United States Maine  Piscataquis  Williamsburg

Williamsburg is an extinct plantation, and extinct town, now an unorganized territory (township) in the Northeast Piscataquis townships in Piscataquis County, Maine. The plantation was created early from Township 6 Eighth Range North of the Waldo Purchase in what was then Hancock County (now Piscataquis County). The town was organized from the plantation of the same name in 1820. Williamsburg set off land to form Barnard in 1834. Williamsburg's town incorporation was surrendered and its status was changed to unorganized territory in 1939.

County. The land that is now Williamsburg was set off as part of Hancock County in 1789; then set off to Penobscot County in 1816; and then set off to Piscataquis County in 1838.