Sunday, September 1, 2019

Penobscot County, Maine, in the 1820 Census

Penobscot County, Maine in the 1820 Census.

If you don't see a town you expect to see in the list of towns below, check to see if the town was incorporated later than 1820 and was known then by another name; or if the town changed its name after incorporation; or if it's now located in another County.

Click here to to return to the main page for the 1820 Census in Maine, which has links to the 9 Maine Counties then in existence and, from there, to the individual Towns of the County chosen.

Note: until the 1850 Census, enumerators listed names of heads of households only.

Click on the town name for more information, including links to the original documents and alphabetical lists of heads of households.

1820 enumerations of Penobscot County appear on Sheets 4-104.
  • Atkinson, Sheets 4 and 5- then in Penobscot County; as of 1838 in Piscataquis County
  • Bangor, Sheets 6-14 - some online sources may show all of Sheet 14 as Bangor, but the lower part is for Corinth, Maine; and some online sources show Sheet 19 for Bangor, when that is actually for Dexter, Maine
  • Brewer - Sheets 102-104, with a possible sheet or sheets missing
  • Carmel - Sheet 80
  • Charleston, then known as New Charleston - Sheets 32-34
  • Clifton, Maine - see Jarvis Gore below
  • Corinth - Sheets 14-17
  • Dexter - Sheets 17-20
  • Dixmont - Sheets 75-78
  • Eddington - Sheets 82 and 83
  • Etna - Sheets 78 and 79
  • Exeter - Sheets 20-24
  • Foxcroft - Sheets 24-26 - then in Penobscot County; as of 1838 in Piscataquis County; merged with Dover in 1922 to create Dover-Foxcroft
  • Garland - Sheets 28-30
  • Guilford - Sheets 26-28 - then in Penobscot County; as of 1838 in Piscataquis County
  • Hampden - Sheets 62-70 - some online sources have mistakenly attributed two sheets for Newberg (now Newburgh) to Hampden
  • Hermon - Sheets 93 and 94 - some online sources have the Newport section of one sheet shared with Hermon attributed all to Hermon
  • Jarvis Gore (became Clifton in 1849) - Sheets 80 and 81
  • Levant - Sheets 30 and 31
  • Matawascah (Madawaska) Parish - covers some names on east side of St. John River, now in New Brunswick
  • New Charleston - now known as Charleston - Sheets 32-34
  • Newburgh, then Newberg - Sheets 71-73 - Sheets 71 and 72 indexed erroneously as Hampden in some online sources.
  • Newport - Sheets 90-93 - three pages are indexed online under Newport; more names and the town tally appear on the first page indexed online for Hermon
  • Orono (incl Old Town area) - Sheets 34-37
  • Orrington - Sheets 96-101
  • Passadumkeag, Township 1 - Sheet 88
  • Sangerville and Sangerfield - Sangerville on Sheets 38 and 40; Sangerfield on Sheet 39 - then in Penobscot County; as of 1838 in Piscataquis County
  • Sebec - Sheets 40-43 - then in Penobscot County; as of 1838 in Piscataquis County
  • States Land Gore, near Sunkhaze - Sheet 54 - William Angove; William Bailey; Isaac Freese; William Freese; Philip Spencer
  • Sunkhays - Number 3 Plantation [or Township 3 OIP EPR] - Sheet 89 - Sunkhaze or Sunkhaze Plantation, now Milford, Maine
  • Williamsburgh - Sheet 44 - then in Penobscot County; as of 1838 in Piscataquis County
  • Township #1  - Sheet 88 - Passadumkeag, also shown above
  • Township #2 - Sheet 87 -  Solomon Littlefield; Herriman Pratt; Elijah Spencer; Benjamin Stanty
  • Township #4 - Sheet 86

Penobscot County in 1820; the larger county represented in pink

Penobscot County in 2019
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