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Boothbay Harbor, ME 04538

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Family History of The Boothbay Region

Embracing Family Genealogies and Biographical Sketches From The First Permanent Settlement in 1730 to Recent Times

by Francis B. Greene $25

The "History of Boothbay, Southport and Boothbay Harbor, Maine" was published in 1906.  It is a volume of 693 pages.  Pages 1 to 461, inclusive, are devoted to the physical and descriptive features; aboriginal inhabitants; early voyages, explorations and settlements; Indian wars; Dunbar's settlement and the Scotch-Irish immigration of 1730; land claims and claimants; municipal and ecclesiastical history of the three towns; contributions to the wars of the Revolution, 1812 and Civil; tables of publishments of intentions of marriages from 1766 to 1820; official lists and tables; the industrial story of mills, ship building, stores, hotels and the growth and conduct of the fishery interests; fraternal societies and organizations; schools; casualties; summer resorts; carrying companies; with miscellaneous monographs and incidents.  Pages 462 to 647, inclusive, are devoted to family history and genealogical sketches.  The remainder of the volume contains a business directory, as existing at the date of publication, indexes and appendix matter.

This volume of 185 consecutive pages is a second printing of pages 462 to 647, inclusive, above mentioned with corrections and re-paging.

There were 1800 volumes of the 1906 edition of the general history.  900 volumes were taken by the towns as follows:  Boothbay, 400; Boothbay Harbor, 400; Southport, 100.  I retained 900 copies.  At this date the towns have exhausted their allotments and I have but few copies left.  I have learned, through many conversations with interested persons, that a considerable percentage is more deeply interested in the genealogical section than other parts of the history, and this has induced me to give that part of the earlier work a second printing and issue a small edition of 500 volumes.

Francis B. Greene

Boothbay Harbor, Me.

Feb'y 12, 1932