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New Gloucester, Maine, USA

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Where is New Gloucester, Maine, USA? 

New Gloucester, Cumberland, Maine, USA
New Gloucester was established under a grant from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1736, the General Court of Massachusetts Bay Colony granted a 6-square-mile (16 km2) tract of land in the Maine Territory to sixty inhabitants of the Gloucester fishing village on Cape Ann. The first settlers followed the road newly bushed out from North Yarmouth and built cabins on Harris Hill between 1739 and 1742. The settlement was abandoned from 1744-1751 due to the heightened Indian attacks during King George's War.wikipedia

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New Gloucester, Maine, USA - Sabbath Day Lake, New Gloucester, Me.
New Gloucester, Maine, USA

Sabbath Day Lake, New Gloucester, Me.

New Gloucester, Maine, USA - High School (1910)
New Gloucester, Maine, USA

High School (1910)
New Gloucester, Maine, USA - Public Library
New Gloucester, Maine, USA

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Androscoggin's Secret Based on the 1900 murder of Jessie Cobb in Lewiston, Maine. ¡spɹɐʍʞɔɐq puɐ uʍop ǝpısdn ǝuıɐW 'uoʇsıʍǝ˥ pǝuɹnʇ ʎɹoʇs sıɥʇ '006Ɩ uI ISBN-10: 1469932067 ISBN-13: 978-1469932064

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On September 7, 1774, the Town of New Gloucester was incorporated.

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By 1775, some of the settlers objected to paying taxes to support the Congregational minister, Rev. Samuel Foxcroft, and this was the beginning of other religions in New Gloucester.

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The Shakers first came to New Gloucester in 1782, and the first meeting was held in the home of Gowan Wilson Sr.

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After having held meetings for several years, the “First Universalist Society of Christians in New Gloucester” was incorporated in 1805.

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(New Gloucester) - According to the records of 1825, there were five stores and five taverns.

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The first railroad, known as the Atlantic and St. Lawrence came through New Gloucester in 1848.

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(New Gloucester) - . In 1860 there were six sawmills, tow tanneries, and two gristmills on the various streams and Royall’s River.

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The Maine Central Railroad, which originally ran from Cumberland to Danville, came to New Gloucester in 1870.

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1886 - New Gloucester
New Gloucester is situated midway on the northern line of Cumberland County, having Gray on the...Read MORE...

1886 - New Gloucester Town Hall was built and dedicated.

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News  1887 - Death of Osgood Bradbury
Osgood Bradbury, who died in New Gloucester, Me., a few days ago, aged ninety years, was born in...Read MORE...

(New Gloucester) In 1890, the farm of Jacob Osgood Haskell, on the bank of Royall’s River at Upper Gloucester, was purchased and a race track built.

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1890 - The New Gloucester Shakers changed their name to Sabbathday Lake.

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1896 - Library built in New Gloucester

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In 1902, New Gloucester High School was built

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1906
New Gloucester, a post-village in New Gloucester township (town), Cumberland co., Me., in the Grand ...Read MORE...


Ancestors Who Were Born Here


Cobb
flag  Henry COBB (23 June 1798, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - 20 August 1872, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA (North Amherst) (South Amherst)) gravestone
 flag  Jessie COBB (8 January 1876, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - 16 September 1900, Lewiston, Maine, USA) gravestone

McCann
flag  Clarence L MCCANN (7 December 1874, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - 17 April 1954, Lewiston, Maine, USA)
flag  George Edward MCCANN (18 October 1865, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - bet. 1905-1922, )
flag  Myra Ella MCCANN (8 October 1872, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - February 1945, , Massachusetts, USA)
flag  Myrtle MCCANN (21 December 1899, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - , )
flag  Verna E MCCANN (7 August 1897, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - , )

Tripp
flag  Lydia TRIPP (abt. 1804, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - 4 August 1896, New Gloucester, Maine, USA)

Verrill
US Civil War Soldiers flag  Abraham VERRILL (23 July 1840, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - 24 March 1921, Gray, Maine, USA) gravestone
flag  Harriet VERRILL (23 February 1846, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - abt. 1882, , Maine, USA)
flag  Henry William VERRILL (3 December 1832, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - 1 December 1908, Gray, Maine, USA)
flag  Jeremiah VERRILL (11 March 1825, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - 15 November 1907, Raymond, Maine, USA) gravestone
flag  Jeremiah VERRILL (19 July 1774, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - 6 October 1834, New Gloucester, Maine, USA)
flag  Joseph L VERRILL (28 September 1848, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - 12 January 1919, Poland, Maine, USA)
flag  Lydia Jane VERRILL (4 June 1842, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - 14 August 1901, Minot, Maine, USA)
flag  Olive VERRILL (19 April 1835, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - aft. 1880, , Maine, USA)
flag  Silas VERRILL (17 September 1822, New Gloucester, Maine, USA - 4 October 1852, New Gloucester, Maine, USA)
 

Ancestors Who Died Here

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Ancestors Who Were Married Here


1799
Jeremiah VERRILL (19 July 1774 - 6 October 1834) & Lydia TRIPP (abt. 1781 - 23 March 1858)
married 12 October 1799

1844
Richard VERRILL (11 July 1823 - 3 November 1863) & Mary Emmerline TRIPP (19 September 1829 - 19 October 1913)
married
 

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