----- Original Message ----- From: bunnydust@attbi.com Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 4:25 PM To: MEYORK-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MEYORK] SOURCES FOR EARLY MAINE.... on List of Freemen you need to know.... Lists: I have a subscriber whom I shall call, "old professor", he keeps me on my toes and gives postive critcism . Here is the information you need to know...keep copy of this for your records as I will not be repeating this information every time I post. ----------------------- SOURCE: NEW ENGLAND HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL REGISTER III Janauary, April, July, October, 1849 as "List of Freemen"; Lucius Paige, Boston,Mass. ------------------------- =============================================================================== FYI: "Colonial Records"...all the Freemen oaths were filed at the General Court in Boston which probably are at the Massachusetts State Archives. http://www.ancestorspy.com/ma/state.htm#Colonial -------------------------- FYI: Early Maine records.. ....all deeds prior to 1737 are published as YORK DEEDS 1642-1737 and General Court Committee sale of Eastern Lands,can be found at: Maine Historical Society, Portland,Maine [has url] Massachusetts State Archives [has url] Maine State Archives, Augusta,Maine "land Office records in Maine State Arc." ---------------------------- FYI: Court records: Province and Court Records of Maine,1639-1727 [6 volumes], published by the Maine Historical Society,1928 and are on microfilm at the FHL.[family history libraries..] All the original court records for York County are at the Maine State Archives. Before statehood[1820] Maine's Court of Appeals was the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature [1692-1780]....these are called "Suffolk Files" and located at the Massachusetts State Archives. The "Circuit court records" are also held at the Mass.State Archives. --------------------------------------------------------------- Maine State Archives State House station 4 Augusta,Me 04333 (good source] --- Maine State Library [has good collections of early Maine] State House station 64 Augusta,me 04333 has vital records,census records,adjutant general records,Maine Land office records,county marriage returns,etc. of early Maine.] ---- Maine HIstorical Society Library 485 Congress St. Portland,Me 04101 (collections printed works) ------------------------------ Maine Genealogical Society P.O. Box Farmington,Maine 04938 ---------------------- University of Maine @ Orono Raymond Folger Library Special Collections Dept Orono,Me 04469 (good collection of state,county,and town histories) ----------------------------------------------------- The sources information is published in: Ancestry's Red Book, American State, County,& Towns Sources; Alice Eichholz,Ph.D.,C.G.,Salt Lake City,Uh,1989. -- Now,professor,where is my "A".....<G> Cynthia Administrator for Ma-Bay-Colony-L@rootsweb.com Bunnydust@attbi.com MBC archiver (postings) http://archiver.rootsweb.com and put Ma-Bay-Colony in the box ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 Hi, Did you forget the P.O.Box number for the Maine Genealogical Society in Farmington? Irene