Otisfield, Maine, papers

Collection

Identifier: Coll. 357

Staff Only

Scope and Content note

Minutes of town meetings; voter lists; valuations; assessments for state, county, town highway and ministerial taxes; reports, accounts, bonds, bills, receipts, etc., relating to assessments, abatements, roads, highway, bridges, school, paupers, and other town affairs; and also a contract and specifications, 1845, for the construction of the town hall.

Dates

Creation: 1796 - 1852

Access

Unrestricted

Copyright

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Administrative note

Otisfield, Maine, was granted by the Massachusetts General Court on June 15, 1771 to James Otis, Nathaniel Gorham and other descendants of Captain John Gorham and certain members of his company who had fought in the 1690 Battle of Quebec. It replaced a 1736 grant which was ruled invalid when the line between New Hampshire and Massachusetts was redrawn to satisfy claims by the heirs of John Mason. Many early settlers were veterans of the Revolutionary War, with the greater number coming from Groton, Massachusetts. First called Otis Field Plantation, it was incorporated on February 19, 1798 as Otisfield. It then included nearly all of Harrison, set off in 1805, and a large part of Naples, set off in 1834.

Source: Wikipedia article