Bradford, Maine, town records
Scope and Content note
Tax assessments, payments, real estate taxes, treasurer's accounts, and plantation and town expenses, including those for the support of schools and of paupers.
Dates
- Creation: 1823 - 1887
Access
Unrestricted
Copyright
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Administrative note
According to some early documents, Bradford, in Penobscot County, was said to be first settled between 1803 and 1805 by James White and Robert Marshall of Thomaston; however, early settler Cornelius Bradford was among the first to live in the settlement and died there in 1790. Cornelius Bradford is a lineal descendant of Governor William Bradford of the Plymouth Colony. He was the eldest child of Joshua and Hannah Bradford, who were killed during the Raid on Meduncook. The settlement of Bradford was organized as Blakesburg Plantation in 1820 and was incorporated as a town on March 12, 1831. By the mid-1850s, its population had peaked at 1,500, which is about 200 more people than it has at the writing of this finding aid (2024).
For more, see the Bradford, Maine Wikipedia article.
Extent
0.25 Linear Feet (3 volumes)
Language of Materials
English
Provenance
Gift of Yale University Library, New Haven, Conn., November 26, 1980 (acc. no. MS 80-38).
Processing note
All three volumes are housed in individual boxes, labeled with the collection number.
- Title
- Guide to the Bradford, Maine, town records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Donna Knoblock, Library volunteer, February 12, 2025
- Date
- February 21, 2025
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Maine Historical Society Repository