Records

Although Farmington is the County Seat. Records before 1838 are found in Augusta, South Paris, and Skowhegan, and very early records are in Wiscasset (prior to 1799-1809).

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  • Avon 1790-1850
  • Farmington 1800
  • Madrid 1840-1850
  • New Sharon 1790-1840
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  Hermit Dies - Hermit William SHIELDS, who for the past 23 years resided on the slope of Mt. Bigelow in the very rudest kind of a hut was found dead Tuesday afternoon, having frozen to death Monday night. No one knows where Shields came from, but when he has consented to converse with people, he has talked more of Pennsylvania than any other state, which has led folks to believe he came from there. He came to the mountain in the fall of 1879 and carried a few slabs which make his hut on his back, from the mill, a distance of 15 miles. It is believed he was a veteran of the Civil War, as he frequently conversed on the subject with apparent knowledge of what he was talking about. He earned a good sum of money during the winter months by making snowshoes and moccasins out of skins he had taken in season. These articles he sold to woodsmen and sporting people. His age was about 75 years. Source: Maine Woodsman of January 30, 1903
   
• Marriages 1840-1891
• Military
• Voters in Berlin 1831

Marriages 1840-1891

I have not been able to figure out why these three books of marriages were recorded in the Franklin County Probate Office. In one of the books, I found reference to "Judicial Court." In checking some of the marriages in these books against the records of towns, many of the marriages were recorded in the town and in these books at the Probate Office. In the event any of the marriages were omitted from other records, I felt it was most important to transcribe these records, and for use of the genealogical public, upload them to the Franklin County MEGenWeb. There are occasional question marks and some unusual name spellings, please keep in mind that the writing was very difficult to read. Some sections had extremely faded writing; and one person who entered data had very scrawly writing that was difficult to read. There seemed to be duplicate entries periodically, but since the dates were sometimes different, I have included both dates. In some cases, we have marriages that took place in a town in Franklin County, but both the bride and groom were from other town outside the county. The closer we get to 1900, the more movement I've found in people marrying here from other places. Anita Hardy Morrison did much of the transcription work. --Nancy J. Porter

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Voters in Berlin (now part of Phillips) 1831

The Legislature of Maine by and Act passed January 31, 1824, incorporated the town of Berlin, which comprised "all that part of Plantation No. 6 in the County of Oxford, which lies east of the line dividing the tenth and eleventh lots west of the four thousand acres, so called, with the inhabitants thereof."

In 1846, (Chap. 46 Special Laws of Maine) the former act was repealed and a part of the town was annexed to the town of Phillips in Franklin County.

Recently Mr. W. Burt Cook, Jr., Assistant Librarian of the Law Library, Brooklyn, New York, presented to the Maine State Library the following list:

Samuel Aspinwall
Thomas Aspinwall
Charles Austin
James Brackett
Nathaniel Brackett
Seth Billington
Daniel Beedy
Nathan Beedy
Peter Beedy
Joseph Beedy
Moses Berrey
Elliot Berry
John Berry
Ebenezer Berrey
Jacob Carr
Daniel Carr
Osgood Carr
William Calden
Joseph S. Carlton
Joseph S. Carlton, Jr.
William Carlton
Thomas Calder
James Dill
Frederick H. Evelett
Ichabod Foster
Benj. Fairbanks
James M. Fairbanks

Robert E. Fairbanks
Jacob Fish
Lewis Fish
Peret Fish
James Hewey
Ezekiel Harper
Eben Harnder
Pearley Hoyt
John Jewell
Joel Judkins
William Kempton
Wm. Kempton, Jr.
Joseph Kempton
Ezra Kempton
James Luskin
Steven Luskin
John Luskin
Benjamin Luskin
Ebenezer Levitt
Daniel Marrow
Cabin Marrow
Joseph Masterman
David Marrow
John Newman
Christopher Orr
Leonard Pratt
Sylvanus Pratt

Benjamin Pratt
William Parker
N. C. Parker
T. J. Parker
Asa Reed
George Reed
Samuel Thorn
Rufus Thompson
Daniel Tracey
James Tuck
Jeremiah Tuck
Josiah Tuck
John Toothaker
Stevens Thomas
Reuben Smith
William Smith
Jeremiah Stutson
Nathaniel Winship
Richard Winship
Ebenezer Whitney
Thomas Booker
Daniel Booker

ICHABOD FOSTER,
JOEL JUDKINS
Selectmen of Berlin

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Contributed by unknown, extracted from Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Vol. VII, May June July 1919, No. 1, page 42

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