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 the town of Smithfield in Somerset County, and the towns of Oakland, Belgrade, and a few slivers of present-day Rome land in Kennebec 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 that land to become part of 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)..