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Bessey School – Grade 6 – [1965]
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Looking at the Past for Scarborough’s Land Conservation
SHS/SPL Program
May 5, 2024
Andrew Mackie will discuss a mapping project recently completed by the Land Trust that looks at development changes in the town since 1970. He will use this data to support a bold conservation plan moving forward. He will include recently completed acquisitions by the Scarborough Land Trust and some that are in progress. He will also discuss the Town Council’s resolution regarding 30×30 and the current Open Space plan for Scarborough.
The next program will be held on Sunday, June 2 when Neil Piper, an agricultural historian and Senior Appraiser for Farm Credit of Maine, will discuss Farming in Maine at the time of Statehood.
Seating is limited, so please reserve a seat at www.scarboroughlibrary.org/SHS
For more information, call the library at 396-6279.
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Channel 2 this week:
SCARBOROUGH COMMUNITY SERVICES HISTORY PROGRAMS
For those Scarborough residents who would enjoy viewing some Scarborough history
programs on your television sets over the Thanksgiving holidays, here is the schedule
being offered by Scarborough Community Services on Channel 2 this week:
Wednesday, April 17:
1pm: Like Father, Like Sons – A Scarborough Family in the Revolutionary War,
By Linda Snow
8pm: Maine’s Logging Heritage – By Mary Morton Cowan
Thursday, April 18:
12pm: Early Tourism in Scarborough – By Linda Snow McLoon
6pm: Mapping Scarborough and Prouts Neck – By Philip von Stade
Friday, April 19:
12pm: Portrait of a 19 th Century Scarborough Family through their Letters – By Linda
Snow McLoon
7:00pm: Prominent Diseases in Early Scarborough – By Dr. Stephen Spaulding
Saturday, April 20:
12pm: Like Father, Like Sons – A Scarborough Family in the Revolutionary War,
By Linda Snow
8pm: Maine’s Logging Heritage – By Mary Morton Cowan
Sunday, April 21:
12pm: Early Tourism in Scarborough – By Linda Snow McLoon
6pm: Mapping Scarborough and Prouts Neck – By Philip von Stade
Future Talks in the Scarborough Historical Society Speakers Series:
- May 5: Looking at the Past for Scarborough’s Land Conservation Future
- June 2: Farming in Maine at the Time of Statehood
Registration, for in-person attendance, is required. Please register at scarboroughlibrary.org/SHS.
Genealogy Research – Family Files
By Don Taylor, Historian
The Scarborough Historical Society has many resources for genealogy researchers.
Resources include SHS Family Files, Digital Collection, Bill Tolman Memorial Database, Obituaries, Cemetery Records, Genealogies, Vital Records, and the Linwood Dyer Genealogy Collection.
My first recommendation for researchers is to review the material in our SHS Family Files.
The SHS Family Files Collection comprises 647[i] file folders (about 15 linear feet) with information on various surnames and several key individuals. Besides specific details, the file folders often include pointers to other records, such as Vital Records. Several file folders have been digitized and are available electronically through our Surname Files Webpage. Contact the Society via email ([email protected]) for the availability of the files not included on the Surname Files Webpage {Library | People | Surname Files}.
(Use the searchbox below to narrow your view to specific surnames[ii].)
Family File Folders.
Surname Files
Surname File |
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Ahlquist |
Alexander |
Alger |
Allard |
Allen |
Allison |
Andrews |
Angell |
Applebee |
Auger |
Ayer |
Babb |
Babkirk |
Bacon |
Baker |
Ball |
Banks |
Barber |
Barge |
Barker |
Barlett |
Barlow |
Barrett |
Barrows |
Basson |
Baston |
Batten |
Bayley Bailey Baly |
Beale |
Beard |
Bedford |
Beecher |
Bell |
Bennett |
Berry |
Bessey |
Bibber |
Bickford |
Bickton |
Blackman |
Blake |
Blanchette |
Bliss |
Bly |
Bogert |
Bonney |
Bonython |
Booth Boothby |
Boulter |
Bowden Boarden Bodin |
Bowes |
Bowley |
Bowne |
Brackett |
Bracy |
Bradford |
Bradley |
Bradshaw |
Bragdon |
Bragg |
Briar |
Brigham |
Brookings Brookins |
Brown |
Brownsey |
Bryant Briant |
Budelent |
Budway |
Burbank |
Burnell |
Burnham |
Burrage |
Burroughs |
Bushey |
Calef |
Calley |
Cammock |
Campbell |
Card |
Carll |
Carlson |
Carter |
Carter |
Cary |
Cecil |
Chadbourne |
Chadwick |
Chamberlain |
Chandler |
Chapman |
Chase |
Chick |
Chipman |
Chisholm |
Christensen |
Christie,Claudia |
Chute |
Clay |
Cleeve |
Clemmons |
Cleverly |
Cloyces-Clayse |
Colby |
Cole |
Collins-Cullins |
Cooke |
Coolbroth |
Cooper |
Corbeau |
Corliss |
Cott |
Coues |
Cousins |
Cox |
Craft |
Crague |
Craig |
Craig Links Newsletter |
Crockett |
Crowley |
Cumston |
Cunningham |
Daicey |
Daniels |
Davis |
Day |
Dean |
Dearing |
Decker |
Deering |
Delaware |
Dennett |
Dennis |
Derby |
Dickson |
Dixon |
Doe |
Dolley |
Dolloff |
Donahue |
Donnell |
Doody |
Doughty |
Douphinett |
Dow |
Downing |
Dresser |
Drisco |
Dudley |
Duley |
Dunstan-Dunton |
Durgin-Durgan |
Durrell |
Dyer |
Edgecomb |
Edmunds-Edwards |
Elkins |
Elliot |
Elwell |
Ewing |
Fabyan |
Fairfield |
Fancy |
Fenderson,Nathaniel |
Fengler |
Fernald |
Fickett |
Field |
Fielding |
Finney |
Flaherty |
Flint |
Fly-Flye |
Fogg |
Ford |
Foss |
Foster |
Foxwell-Foxell |
Foy-Foye |
Frederick-Fredericks |
Freeman |
Freethy |
Frezell |
Frost |
Fuller |
Furniss |
Gammon |
Gantnier |
Garland |
Geldart |
Gelinas |
Gendall |
Gervais |
Getchell |
Gibbs |
Gibson |
Giles |
Gilman |
Glanfield |
Glicke |
Gochie |
Goodrich-Goodridge |
Goodwin |
Googins |
Goold-Gould |
Gower |
Grace |
Graffam |
Grant |
Graves |
Greeley |
Green-Greene |
Greenleaf |
Griffin |
Gunnison |
Guptill |
Gustin |
Haigis |
Haines |
Hall |
Hallett |
Hamblen-Hamlin |
Hannaford |
Hanson-Hansen |
Harding |
Harford |
Harmon |
Harringdton |
Hart |
Haskell |
Hasty,John Reanimation Story |
Hawkes |
Hayes |
Hayward-Heyward |
Heald |
Heinz |
Hersey |
Higgins |
Hight |
Hill |
Hillock |
Hodgdon |
Holmes |
Holt |
Homer |
Honeywell Heritage Newsletter |
Hooper |
Howatt |
Howland |
Hoyt |
Hudson |
Huff |
Hughes |
Hunkins |
Hunnewell-Honeywell |
Hunnewell-Honeywell |
Hunt |
Hurd |
Ingalls |
Jackson |
Jayne |
Jellerson-Jellison |
Jenkins |
Jensen |
Jewell |
Jocelyn-Josselyn |
Johnson |
Jones |
Jordan |
Joss-Jose |
Kaler |
Kennedy |
kenniston |
Kilborn |
Kimball |
King (Rufus) Association |
King Genealogies |
King Richard |
King Richard 2nd |
King, (William) |
King, Rufus |
King, William |
Kinney |
Knight |
Knight |
Knox |
Krijanovsky |
Lacy |
Lamb |
Lambert |
Lancaster |
Lane |
Larrabee |
Lary |
Laughton |
Leary |
Leavitt |
Lebby,Nathaniel |
Leech |
Leighton |
Lello |
Leslie |
Lewis, A Ralph and Frances |
Libbee |
Libbey |
Libby , Charles Thornton |
Libby ,Eliakim 1-1-2-9 |
Libby Benjamin |
Libby Joshua J. 11-7-2-6-2-5-3-4 |
Libby Matthew |
Libby Nathan |
Libby Publications |
Libby, Lydia (Jordan) Seth 5-7-14 |
Libby, Allison |
Libby, Annie Louise |
Libby, Arnold |
Libby, Benjamin,deacon 1-6-2-4-10-7-4 |
Libby, Bertha Olive Bertha Libby |
Libby, Blanche |
Libby, Captain Stephen 5-7-8-3 |
Libby, Charles Oliver |
Libby, Charles, E |
Libby, Clark and Dorothy |
Libby, Daniel |
Libby, Dominicus |
Libby, Dorothy Shaw |
Libby, Edward |
Libby, Emma Agnes Merrill |
Libby, Eugene and Jennie 7-2-6-2-5-3 |
Libby, Forest Allen 1-6-9-8-1-1-4-1 |
Libby, Freedom 10-5-3-5-6-6 |
Libby, George |
Libby, Goodman |
Libby, Harrison |
Libby, Henry Augustus 5-7-8-1-4-6-1 |
Libby, Jethro |
Libby, Joab 1 1 3 8 |
Libby, John Deacon 1 6 9 12 |
Libby, John, immigrant |
Libby, Joseph |
Libby, Josiah1-1-6 |
Libby, Len |
Libby, Lewis |
Libby, Margaretta A 5-7-8-3-4 |
Libby, Moses 5-7-8-2 |
Libby, Name |
Libby, Nathaniel10-5-5 |
Libby, Nehemiah and Parmela 5-2-7-5 |
Libby, Peletiah 11-6-2-2- |
Libby, Samuel and Hannah 11-7-2-4-8-4 |
Libby, Samuel Ellsworth |
Libby, Samuel Manson 10-2-4-9-3 |
Libby, Seth and Lydia 5-7-14 |
Libby, Shirley |
Libby, stephen Augustus 5-7-8-3-9-3 |
Libby, Thaddeus Alonzo 10-2-4-3-5 |
Libby, Thomas J. |
Libby, William |
Libby, William Dyer 10-5-3-5-4-8 |
Libby, Winfield Scott 11-9-7-8-2-6 |
Libby,, Osgood 10 -5-1-10-6 |
Libby,A.D.T |
Libby,Anthony 1-1-2-7 |
Libby,Eben |
Libby,Elbridge |
Libby,Elijah 10-4-2-4 |
Libby,Elisha |
Libby,Enoch 10-2-4-8 |
Libby,Ephraim |
Libby,Francis |
Libby,James Small |
Libby,Kenneth 5-7-14-13-3-5-1-1 |
Libby,Lida. E |
Libby,Lucien |
Libby,Luke |
Libby,Luther |
Libby,Nathaniel |
Libby,Perley 10-5-3-5-6-2-? |
LIbby,Peter 11-6-2 |
Libby,Richard 5-7-14-13-3-5-1-2 |
Libby,Richard and Sarah |
Libbys, other Libbys, estate Oakhill |
Lilley |
LIncoln |
Lindholm |
LInk |
LItchfield |
Littlefield |
Littlejohn |
Lomac |
Longfellow |
Lord |
Lorfano |
Lothrop |
Lutz |
Lyons |
Mac Donald |
Maddiver |
Maden |
Maguire |
Malcolm |
Mallory |
March |
Marr |
Marsh |
Marshall |
Martin |
Mason |
Mayberry |
Mc Cobb |
Mc Daniel |
Mc Davitt |
Mc Kenney |
Mc Lellan |
McLaughlin |
Mc Laughlin |
McLaughlin/Sands |
McPhearson |
Means |
Merrill |
Merritt |
Merry |
Meserve |
Miller |
Milliken |
Mills |
Minott |
Mitchell |
Mitsmenn |
Moody |
Moore |
Morrill |
Morris |
Morse |
Moses |
Moulton |
Mulholland |
Munson |
Mussey |
Nason |
Nelson-Nelsen |
Newcomb |
Nicholson |
Nickles genealogy |
Nielson |
Nordica-Norton |
Norton |
Nutter |
Nye |
O’Brien |
O’Donal |
O’Roak |
Oakman |
Odel |
Oliver |
Osgood |
Paige |
Paine |
Palmer |
Parcher |
Parker |
Parkinson |
Parlin |
Paul |
Paulsen |
Payson |
Pearce |
Pearson |
Peary |
Pedersen |
Penney |
Perkins-Parkyns-Morlaix |
Perley |
Perry |
Perry-Pyne |
Petersen-Peterson |
Phillips |
Pierce-Pearce-Peirce |
Pike |
Pillsbury |
Pillsbury Black Point |
Pillsbury Pine Point |
Pine-Pyne |
Piper |
Place (surname) |
Plaisted |
Plowman |
Plummer |
Plummer-Clifford |
Pooler |
Pope |
Price |
Prince |
Prout |
Purington |
Quimby |
Rackliffe |
Rand |
Rawlins-Rollins |
Raynes |
Reed |
Reidy |
Reynolds |
Rice |
Richards |
Richardson/Richards |
Ricker |
Ridlon-Ridley |
Ring |
Rishworth |
Roberts |
Robinson |
Rogers |
Rollins |
Ross |
Rounds |
Rouse |
Roy |
Royal |
Rumery |
Ruotolo |
Russell |
Sanborn |
Sanders |
Sands |
Sapiro |
Sargent |
Savage |
Sawyer |
Scammon-Scamman |
Scarborough |
Schaff |
Scott |
Scottow |
Seavey |
Senter |
Sewall-Sewell |
Shaw |
Shelden-Sheldon |
Shenefield |
Sherman |
Shorey |
Shute |
Simpson |
Skillin-Skillen |
Skillings |
Skolfield |
Smale-Small |
Smilie |
Smith |
Snow |
Southard |
Southgate |
Spaark-Sparke |
Sparrow |
Spear |
Sprague |
Stam |
Stanford |
Stanford Genealogy |
Steele |
Sterling |
Stevens |
Stiles |
Stilphen |
Stone |
Storey-Storer |
Stout |
Stover |
Strange |
Strout |
Stuart |
Sturtevant |
Sullivan |
Summers |
Swasey |
Sweetser |
Swett |
Swinburne |
Sylvester |
Talbot |
Tarbox |
Temm |
Tervainen |
Thibeau |
Thomas |
Thompson |
Thomson-Thompson |
Thornton |
Thurlow |
Thurston |
Tibbets-Tebbets |
Tilton |
Titus |
Tolman |
Torrey |
Towle |
Travis |
Trickey |
Tucker |
Turner |
Tyler |
Tyng |
Urquhart |
Ustic |
Varney |
Verrill |
Vinson |
Waldo |
Walker |
Ward |
Warren |
Wasgatt |
Waterhouse |
Waterhouse -Stroudwater |
Waterhouse Joseph-Genealogy |
Waterhouse-Scarborough |
Waterman |
Watson |
Webber |
Welch |
Wentworth |
Wescott and variations |
West |
Westbrook |
Weston |
Wheeler |
Whipple |
Whitten |
Wiggin |
Wight |
Wilbur |
Wiley |
Willey |
Williams |
Willman |
Wilmot- Wilmott |
Winch |
Winnock-Whinick |
Winship |
Winslow |
Winter |
Witham |
Wood – Woodward |
Wright |
Xaphes |
Young |
Next time, I’ll briefly examine the Digital Collection, what is available, and how you can access that information.
Endnotes
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Pages Updated – March 2024
Library
Books
Books Available Online
History of Cumberland Co., Maine by Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford), Published 1880. Available via Internet Archive (Search for both Scarboro and Scarborough).
Videos
Due to technical problems, the February 2024 presentation’s recording did not turn out. However, Linda Snow McLoon presented the same program to the Scarborough Adult Education at the Scarborough High School in March 2024. It was recorded and is presented here:
Due to weather, the January 2024 presentation was rescheduled for April 2024.
Research
Annual Reports
1863-64 Scarborough Annual Report: Archive.org
1870 Scarborough Annual Report: Archive.org (Partial)
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Updated Speaker Series Schedule
SCARBOROUGH HISTORICAL SOCIETY SPEAKERS SERIES
First Sundays from 2-3pm at Scarborough Public Library,
48 Gorham Road, Scarborough, Maine
APRIL 7, 2024 – FULL – Prominent Diseases in Early Scarborough
By Stephen Spaulding, MD
MAY 5, 2024 – Looking at the Past for Scarborough’s Land Conservation Future
By Andrew J. Mackie
JUNE 2, 2024 – Farming in Maine at the Time of Statehood
By Neil Piper
To Register:
Scan the QR code or go to scarboroughlibrary.org/SHS. Not computer savvy? Call Scarborough Public Library at 207-883-4723 option 4.
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Library
Bibles
The Stone Bible – Surnames include Stone, Haskell.
Rev. Tilton Bible (61.1.1) – 2nd Parish (Dunstan) Congregational Church – Dated 1801.
Plummer Bible #2 – 2023.01.401 – Appears to be the Bible of David and Alice (Stone) Plummer. It included entries from 1846 to 1931. Surnames include Dyer, Laidlaw, McKeen, Plummer, Roberts, Sinnott, Smith, & Stone.
Videos
Maine’s Logging Heritage
By Mary Morton Cowan
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Pages Updated – January 2024
About
I added a link to the Society’s bylaws.
I corrected the list of current officeholders.
Library
Collections
Linwood Dyer Genealogy Collection – Newspaper Clippings
Personalities – 2023.01.38 – 42 clippings – Surnames: Milliken, Barrows, Baxter, Burleigh, Libby, Dyer, Haigis, Harmon, Lothrop, Snow, Winter, Delaware, Poulin, King, Laughton, Burnham, Lindquist, Lorfano, & Moody. Areas of Interest: Pine Point, “Cider Barrel Elm”, Volunteers of America summer camp,
Library | People | Genealogy
Scarborough Families
Scarborough Families – Sawyer – 2023.01.28 (Sections, A, B, C, D, Edward of Rowley, and Addenda)
Scarborough Families – T – 2023.01.27
Scarborough Families – U – 2023.01.27
Scarborough Families – V – 2023.01.27
Scarborough Families – X-Y-Z – 2023.01.30
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5Od4tCYOS7s?si=iXuo0G16loNEPzfdScarborough Historical Map Tour 1871-2024 By Dominic Tracey |
Library | Videos
Scarborough Historical Map Tour
1871-2024
By Dominic Tracey
Prominent Diseases in Early Scarborough
Rescheduled for April 7, 2024 – 2 to 3 pm – Scarborough Public Library Meeting Room.
Prominent Diseases in Early Scarborough
By Stephen Spaulding, MD
We live in an age when much is understood about infectious diseases, and there are effective
treatments to many of the diseases. But in the 17 th -19th centuries that was not the case.
Epidemics of lethal diseases were feared, “consumption” killed many, and even more common
infections could become fatal. This presentation will give an overview of the diseases that our
Scarborough predecessors faced, their impact on life in southern Maine, and how our forebears dealt with them.
Register on the Scarborough Public Library SHS Events page, or telephone the library (207) 883-4723 to register.
Page/Post Updates – December 2023
I made the following changes/additions to the website during December 2023.
Links Page:
Scarborough Focused Links
Businesses
Rebecca Hillman Pottery (a 2023-2024 Cammock member)
Library | Education
Class of 1948
Library | Education | Grammar Schools
Dunstan
Class of 1961 – Dunstan Grammar School – Grade 3
Library | People | Genealogy
Scarborough Families
Scarborough Families – B – Burnham – 2023.01.17
Scarborough Families – C – 2023.01.18
Scarborough Families – C – Descendants of Timothy Carle – 2023.01.18
Scarborough Families – C – Descendants of Daniel Cole – 2023.01.18
Scarborough Families – C – Cole Genealogy – 2023.01.18
Scarborough Families – C – Descendants of John Coolbroth – 2023.01.18
Scarborough Families – C – Descendants of Joseph Collins – 2023.01.18
Scarborough Families – D – 2023.01.18
Scarborough Families – E – 2023.01.19
Scarborough Families – F – 2023.01.19
Scarborough Families – F – Foss (A) – 2023.01.19
Scarborough Families – F – Foss (B) – 2023.01.19
Scarborough Families – G – 2023.01.19
Scarborough Families – G – Googins – Descendants of Patrick Googins – 2023.01.20
The Googins Family in America – Charlotte H. Googins – 1914 – Google Books
Linwood Dyer’s updates & corrections to The Googins Family in America
Scarborough Families – G – Gustin notes – 2023.01.19
Scarborough Families – H – 2023.01.21 (1-100)
Scarborough Families – H – 2023.01.21 (101-133)
Scarborough Families – H – Haigis – 2023.01.21
Scarborough Families – I – 2023.01.19
Scarborough Families – J – 2023.01.22
Scarborough Families – K – 2023.01.22
Scarborough Families – L – 2023.01.22
Scarborough Families – M – Pages 1-100 – 2023.01.23
Scarborough Families – M – Pages 101-200 – 2023.01.23
Scarborough Families – M – Pages 201-216 – 2023.01.23
Scarborough Families – N – 2023.01.24
Scarborough Families – O – 2023.01.24
Scarborough Families – P/Q – 2023.01.24
Scarborough Families – P – Plummer-Dyer – 2023.01.54 (Directory)
Scarborough Families – P – Plummer-Perley – 2023.01.40 (Directory)
Scarborough Families – R – 2023.01.25
Scarborough Families – S – Pages 1-100 – 2023.01.26
Scarborough Families – S – Pages 101-165 – 2023.01.26
Library | People | Surname Files | Surnames – M
McKenney Files includes:
- John Mackshane of Saugus and John MacKane/MacKanny/MacKenny, et al, of Black Point/Scarborough, Maine are “one & the same.”
- McKenney Genealogy – from the Linwood Dyer Maine Room, 2023.01.237, 238, & 239.
- SHS Surname Files – McKenney.
- SHS Surname Files – McKenney “Pinkies.”
Library | Things | Videos
Now available via YouTube. Mapping Scarborough & Prouts Neck
by Phil von Stade.
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