Dixmont, Maine Vital Records
- Author: Linda A. Strauss and Richard E. Spinney
- SKU: 2062
- ISBN: 0897255046
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Description:
Dixmont, Maine Vital Records, Maine Genealogical Society Special Publication No. 41 by Linda A. Strauss and Richard E. Spinney. 192pp, 4,646 entry Every Name Index. 2003. Smythe sewn and hard cover. 248pp.
The town of Dixmont is located about 20 miles southwesterly from Bangor, Maine, the seat of government for Penobscot County. Dixmont is one of the five townships, each six miles square, that were granted to the trustees of Bowdoin College by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by an act of June 24, 1794. It was shown as Number 3, Range 1, North of the Waldo Patent on the original survey made by Ephriam Ballard and Samuel Weston in 1792. Until February 16, 1816, when Penobscot County was formed, Dixmont was located in Hancock County.
The vital records in this book have been recorded verbatim, down to the last detail including misspellings and strike overs, making no corrections to any obvious errors. The order of the entries in each section has remained intact to allow the researcher to view adjacent entries that may relate to each other.
Although the town was not incorporated until 1807, records of birth will be found as early as the 1760s for the parents recorded in the family registers of the book of births and in the 1810s for the children. In separate books of record, marriages were recorded beginning in 1858 and deaths in the very early 1800s.
Linda Strauss and Richard Spinney have each provided a valuable resource tool for researchers seeking ancestors in the town of Dixmont.
