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).

• Births
• Cemeteries
• Census
  • Avon 1790-1850
  • Farmington 1800
  • Madrid 1840-1850
  • New Sharon 1790-1840
• Court
• Deaths
• Deaths noted in the earliest book at the Chesterfield Town Office
• 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
• 1828-1854 performed by Joseph Keith
• 1840-1891
• Military
• Voters in Berlin 1831

Deaths noted in the earliest book at the Chesterfield Town Office

Nathan Hall d. 3-11-187?
Harriet T Hall d. 3-31-18??
Isaac Knowles d. 4-4-1821
Prudence Knowles d. 3-28-1845
Elijah Mears d. 6-22-1864
Phebe Gibbs d. 9-(1 or 4)-1850
Frank Gibbs d. 2-1-1851
Jane Gage d. 2-16-1851
Mrs. Rufina A Ring d. 10-21-1864
Cyrus Pierce d. 4-28-1851
George Washington Park, nephew of Luther and Elisha, d. 3-22-1855
Augustus J Hall d. 1-16-1882
Bradbury Hall d. 12-21-1888
Jonah Vaughn Esq d. 5-24-18(56?)
Mrs. Julia Pierce, wife of Cyrus d. 4-5-1857
Widow Elizabeth Clifford d. 10-1-1857 @93y
Ozem Knowles d. 5-19-1858
Abial Mosher d. 1-2-186(4 or 6)
Ellen C Thurston d. 1-25-1891 in Foxboro Mass @19y
Charles F Pinkham d. 6-25-1885
Rev David Allen d. 7-11-1885
Maria, wife of John C Downs and daughter of Charles Pinkham d. Sept 1885
Infant son of John C Downs d. 12-13-1885
Jackson Allen d. 8-1-1887
Mrs Salome Allen d. 11-22-1885
John W Randall d. 3-1-1891
Walter Ross d. 1-23-1846
John C Riggs d. 12-23-188? (page worn)
Joseph Ingalls d. 7-15-1846
Mrs. Julia A Farrington d. 12-5-1846
David B Webster d. 4-13-18?? (page worn)
Dorothy Judith Barnard d. 2-14-1850
Charles, son of Luther Park, d. 5-10-1849
Cordelia S Perkins d. 12-15-1843
Lidia/Lida French d. 8-8-1849
John H Gould drowned 11-4-1820
Lyman Bean d. 12-2-1855
Capt Simon Pierce d. 4-9-1814
Samuel Linscott d. 11-17-1816
Ruth Ingraham d. 10-19-1816
Comfort Lowell d. 6-2-1816 (widow)
Anna French, wife of Dearborn French d. 2-1-1812
Jacob Linscott d. 8-5-1817
Mr. Peckard (Horhor or Porpor) d. 12-10-1819
Elisha Bennett d. 9-7-1819
Widow Lucy Bennett d. 3-8-1827
Susan (Earl or Carl) d. 10-21-1822
Jonathan Daggett d. 10-22-1822
Mary, wife of Amasa Davis d. 8-23-1835
Phebe, wife of Sumner Russell, d. 9-8-1836
Sarah, wife of Tobias Moore d. 5-5-1833
Hepzibah, widow of Capt Simon Pierce, d. 8-23-1842
Samuel, father of Elisha Park, d. 7-4-1841
Tobias Moore d. 1-9-1843
Dorcas Sewall, sister of Stephen Sewall of Winthrop, d. 1-23-1843
Anna, wife of Daniel Mitchell d. 1-14-1836
John H Smith d. 5-10-1837
William Taylor d. 3-26-1814
Polly, wife of John Chaney Jr., d. 4-4-1814
Rachel, dau of (Simon?) Ripley d. 4-24-1823
James M Manson, who ma: Cyrus Whitney's widow, was drowned in the Sandy River
Peter Young d. 5-23-1838
Joanna, wife of True Hodgkins Esq, d. 8-10-1849
William Plummer Paul, son of James Paul, d. Jan 1849
Abel Farmington, brother to Lewis and to Dr. Frost's first wife, d. 7-25-1863
David R Presson d. 10-22-1865 @45y
Mrs. Betsey, wife of Josiah Gordon, and mother of David Gordon, d. 4-28-1842

Marriages 1828-1854

Performed by Joseph Keith, Justice of the Peace of North Chesterville (Keith's Mills). Records are from a notebook kept by Mr. Keith, and in 1971 was in the possession of Mr. Keither's great-granddaughter, Geneva (Keith) Walton of Chesterville. These records were copied by Dr. F C Lovejoy of Farmington and contributed to the Town Office's records.

1828 Oct 23 John C Bean of Jay & Olive G Berry of Chesterville
1828 Nov 25 John Lawrence of Newport & Martha L Rollins of Chesterville
1830 Sept 2 Jason Trask of Wilton & Sarah Lawrence of Wilton, at Wilton
1831 Nov 8 Sumner Knowlton & Marianne Gilbert, both of Chesterville
1832 Sept 18 Pecallis Clark & Abigail Cheney, both of Chesterville
1832 Sept 19 Eliphalet G Lane of Livermore & Betsey Berry of Chesterville
1834 March 5 John Rolllin of Newport & Edes S Cummings of Farmington at Farmington
1834 Dec 14 Oliver Cummings & Rebecca Lane, both of Farmington at Farmington
1835 Apr 14 Nathaniel F True of Fayette & Betsey Billings of Chesterville
1836 May 31 Collings Lovejoy Jr & Mary Ann Conforth, both of Chesterville
1837 June 4 John H Ripley & Catharine Hanson both of Farmington at Farmington
1837 Oct 19 Samuel Foster & Densey Bean both of Chesterville
1837 Nov (?) Hanson Bean & Mary Ann Smith, both of Chesterville
1839 June 17 Elisha P Parcher, Chesterville & Angeline Manson, Farmington at Farmington
1839 July 28 James Dunsmore Jr of Temple & Aurilia Ripley of Farmington at Farmington
1840 Mar 12 Jacob W Butterfield Jr of Chesterville & Betsey P Chandler of Wilton at Wilton
1841 Mar 21 Charles Norcross & Velzora Gilbert, both of Chesterville
1841 Dec 23 Isaac G Rollins & Julia C Butterfield, both of Chesterville
1847 Aug 26 Isaac P Knowls & Cordelia Ann Folsom, both of Chesterville
1854 Jan 18 Joseph Keith, Jr & Mercy B Gale, both of Chesterville
1854 Mar 8 Freeman E Ring & Rufina A Paul, both of Chesterville

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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