Date:
9 Jun 1849
Location:
Brooklin, Hancock County, Maine
Surnames/tags:
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This profile is part of the Brooklin, Maine One Place Study.
Brooklin is a town in Hancock County, incorporated on June 9, 1849, under the name of Port Watson, from a portion of land set off from the town of Sedgwick. On July 23rd of the same year, its name was changed to Brooklin, named for the brook which formed the line (brook line) between the new town and Sedgwick.
| Date
| Designation
| Note
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| -1534 | Naskeag | Wabanaki peoples - the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot tribes
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| 1534-1760 | Nouvelle France | Under French control, no known European settlers
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| 1760 | Majabigwaduce Plantation, Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay | France surrenders September 8, 1760, Britain officially takes control of the area
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| 1762 | | Several Land Grants were made from the Livermore Survey
including: Township No. 4 EPR
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| | Plantation No 4., Lincoln, Massachusetts Bay | Plantation No. 4 aka Naskeag Plantation from Township No. 4 EPR
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| 1776 | Plantation No 4, Lincoln, Massachusetts | America declares independence from Britain July 4, 1776
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| 1789 | Sedgwick, Lincoln, Massachusetts | Sedgwick was incorporated January 14, 1789 from Plantation No. 4 aka Naskeag Plantation
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| 1789 | Sedgwick, Hancock, Massachusetts | Hancock County is formed June 25, 1789
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| 1820 | Sedgwick , Hancock, Maine | Maine becomes the 23 state March 15, 1820
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| 1849 | Port Watson, Hancock, Maine | Port Watson Incorporated June 9, 1849 from a portion of Sedgwick
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| 1849 | Brooklin, Hancock, Maine | Port Watson renamed Brooklin on July 23, 1849
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Villages, Locations and Settlements
Villages, Locations
and Settlements
| Settler
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| Bridges Point |
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| Flye Point |
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| Harriman Point |
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| Naskeag |
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| North Brooklin |
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| Haven |
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| West Brooklin |
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Historical Names
| Name
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| Majabigwaduce |
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| Naskeag |
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| Township No. 4 East of Penobscot River, Livermore Survey |
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| Port Watson | June 1849 to July 1849
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Pioneer Settlers
Islands
The state of Maine lists over 18 Islands that are part of Brooklin Maine Islands
| Islands
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| Babson Island |
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| Chatto Island |
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| Flye Island |
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| Green Island |
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| Harbor Island |
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| Hog Island |
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| Little Babson Island |
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| Mahoney Island |
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| Torrey Island |
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Maps
Maps (Click an image for details)
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| Sedgwick and Brooklin
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Broolin Maps available on other sites:
Stories
Varney's Gazetteer of the state of Maine has the following:
Brooklin is the most southerly part of the mainland of Hancock County, being also near the western side. Sedgwick bounds it on the north-west, from which it extends southeastward into the sea, and north-eastward toward Bluehill Bay. It is 26 miles from Ellsworth and 50 from Bangor. The town has good harbors. In 1856, a lighthouse was erected on Flye's Ledges, but it does not now appear in the list of the national lighthouses. The town is rather rugged in its appearance, and its rocks show evidence of a paying deposit of phosphate of lime. The soil is gravelly, but strong and productive, and the inhabitants are giving more attention to agriculture than formerly. Hay is the principal crop ; and porgy chum has been largely used for dressing the land. There was formerly a large porgy business, but little is done in it at present. Smoked herring are produced in considerable quantities ; there is a lobster-canning factory, a barrel-factory, and the manufacture of boots and shoes is also quite a business. The first permanent settler of Brooklin was a Mr. Black. His daughter Elizabeth, the first child born in the town, lived to the age of one hundred and two years. In 1688, there were two families at Naskeag, Charles St. Robins and La Flour. Naskeag Point is frequently mentioned in documentary history, and there are -said to be "signs" of its occupation at a time and by a people now unknown. The territory of Brooklin was set off from Sedgwick, and incorporated in 1849 under the name of Fort Watson. One month later its name was changed to Brooklin.
There are in the town nine stores of general goods, one of fancy, and one of millinery goods. The town-hall is a large building of three stories, crowned with a mansard roof. The Baptists have a very good church edifice, that is much frequented. Brooklin has nine public schoolhouses, valued at $4,500. The valuation of estate in 1870 was $186,899. In 1880 it was $177,534. The rate of taxation in 1880 was 414.50 on $1,000. The population in 1870 was 966. In 1880 it was 977.
Additional Resources
- Websites:
- Books:
- Fish, E. S. 1876. History of Brooklin: an address delivered at Brooklin, Maine, July 4, 1876. Bangor, Me: Burr & Robinson. (Portland Public Library)
- Limeburner, Grace M. 1952. Brooklin, Maine: all vital statistics recorded on town books prior A.D. 1860. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah. (Bangor Public Library, Maine State Library, Family History Library)
- Limeburner, Grace M. Grindle. 1991. Brooksville, Brooklin, Sedgwick, Bluehill and Surry, Maine: notes. [North Brooksville, Me.]: [G. Limeburner].
- Varney, George J. 1886. Gazetteer of the state of Maine: with numerous illustrations.
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