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Aroostook County
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County Courthouse
Aroostook County County144 Swenden Street
Caribou, ME 04736
Phone: 207.493.3318
County Clerk has divorce and court records from 1839.
Town Clerks have birth, marriage, death and burial records.
Probate Court has probate records.
Register of Deeds has land records. [1]
History
Parent County
Created 16 Mar 1839 Penobscot, Somerset and Washington counties. [1]
Boundary Changes
Part added from Piscataquis County in 1844.[1]
Record Loss
Places / Localities
[[Image:]] Cities
- Caribou
- Presque Isle
Towns
- Allagash
- Amity
- Ashland
- Bancroft
- Blaine
- Bridgewater
- Castle Hill
- Caswell
- Chapman
- Crystal
- Dyer Brook
- Eagle Lake
- Easton
- Fort Fairfield
- Fort Kent
- Frenchville
- Grand Isle
- Hamlin
- Hammond
- Haynesville
- Hersey
- Hodgdon
- Houlton
- Island Falls
- Limestone
- Linneus
- Littleton
- Ludlow
- Madawaska
- Mapleton
- Mars Hill
- Masardis
- Merrill
- Monticello
- New Canada
- New Limerick
- New Sweden
- Oakfield
- Orient
- Perham
- Portage Lake
- Saint Agatha
- Saint Francis
- Sherman
- Smyrna
- Stockholm
- Van Buren
- Wade
- Wallagrass
- Washburn
- Westfield
- Westmanland
- Weston
- Woodland
Plantations: Cary | Cyr | Garfield | Glennwood | Macwahoc | Moro | Nashville | Oxbow | Reed | St. John | Winterville
Unorganized territories (WELS* = West of the Easterly Line of the State)
- Central Aroostook
- Township C R2 WELS*
- Township D R2 WELS*
- Cox Patent
- Township 7 R3 WELS* (Dudley)
- Township 8 R3 WELS*
- Township 9 R3 WELS*
- Township 10 R3 WELS*
- Township 7 R4 WELS* (Webbertown)
- Township 8 R4 WELS* (St. Croix)
- Township 9 R4 WELS*
- Township 10 R4 WELS* (Squa Pan)
- Township 11 R4 WELS*
- Township 7 R5 WELS*
- Township 8 R5 WELS*
- Township 9 R5 WELS* (Swett Farm)
- E Township
- Connor (Township K)
- Northwest Aroostook
- South Aroostook
- Township A R2 WELS*
- Township 3 R2 WELS* (Forkstown)
- Township 4 R3 WELS*
- Township 3 R3 WELS* (Bragg Tract)
- Township 3 R4 WELS*
- Township 2 R4 WELS*
- Township 1 R4 WELS* N 1/2 (U Molunkus)
- Township 1 R4 WELS* S 1/2 (North Yarmouth)
- Silver Ridge
- Benedicta
- Township 1 R5 WELS*
- Township A R5 WELS* (Molunkus)
- Square Lake
- Township 17 R3 WELS*
- Township 16 R4 WELS* (Big Madawaska)
- Township 17 R4 WELS* (Sinclair)
- Township 13 R5 WELS*
- Township 14 R5 WELS*
- Township 15 R5 WELS*
- Township 16 R5 WELS* (Square Lake)
- Cross Lake Township
- Township 14 R6 WELS*
- Township 15 R6 WELS*
- Township 16 R6 WELS*
Communities
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Village • Crouseville
Neighboring Counties
Penobscot | Piscataquis | Somerset | Washington | New Brunswick counties: Carleton | Madawaska | Victoria | York | Quebec counties: Kamouraska | L'Islet | Montmagny | Témiscouata
Resources
Cemeteries
Fairmont Cemetery : Located south of Presque Isle, Aroostook County, Maine. Full name searches
Church
Court
Gazetteers
Land
Local Histories
Maps
Military
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.Probate
Taxation
Vital Records
Societies and Libraries
Family History Centers
Web Sites
- The Aroostook County MEGenWeb Project, an member of The MEGenWeb Project, an affiliate of The USGenWeb Project.
- The USGenWeb Archives Project for Aroostook County
- The USGenWeb Archives Project for Aroostook County (backup site)
- FamilySearch.org Family History Library catalog for Aroostook County
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America, 10th ed. (Draper, Utah: Everton Pub., 2002), Aroostook County, Maine page 304, At various libraries (WorldCat); FHL Book 973 D27e 2002.
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