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Otisfield, Oxford, ME
Otisfield is a town in Oxford County, settled in 1776 and incorporated on February 19, 1798 from Otisfield Plantation.
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- 1771 - Otisfield was granted by the Massachusetts General Court on June 15, 1771 to James Otis, Nathaniel Gorham and other descendants of Captain John Gorham and certain members of his company who had fought in the 1690 Battle of Quebec.
www.wikipedia.org - When Otisfield was settled in 1773, one of the conditions Massachusetts placed on its founders was that they must build a church for the residents and that the church be not Baptist but Congregationalist.
Accordingly the proprietors and first citizens built the first Bell Hill Meetinghouse, constructed between 1795 and 1799.
www.eofbc.org/ your-church/ history-of-the-east-otisfie.html - First called Otis Field Plantation, it was incorporated on February 19, 1798 as Otisfield.
www.wikipedia.org - 1854 - Otisfield
Otisfield, a post-township in Cumberland co., Maine, 25 miles S. S. W. from Augusta. Population, 1171.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854. - 1880 population of Otisfield - 927
maineanencyclopedia.com/ otisfield/ - 1886 - Otisfield
Otisfield is the most easterly of the northern towns of Cumberland County. Thompson’s Pond separates it from Poland in Androscoggin County and from...Read MORE... - 1895 - Otisfield
O'tisfield, a post-hamlet in Otisfield township, Cumberland co., Me, about 36 miles N.N.W. of Portland. It has a church. Pop. of the township, 1099.
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott 
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Otisfield, a post-village in Otisfield township (town), Cumberland co., Me., about 36 miles NNW. of Portland. Pop. of the town in 1900, 728.
Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906 
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1771 - Otisfield was granted by the Massachusetts General Court on June 15, 1771 to James Otis, Nathaniel Gorham and other descendants of Captain John Gorham and certain members of his company who had fought in the 1690 Battle of Quebec.
www.wikipedia.org
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When Otisfield was settled in 1773, one of the conditions Massachusetts placed on its founders was that they must build a church for the residents and that the church be not Baptist but Congregationalist.
Accordingly the proprietors and first citizens built the first Bell Hill Meetinghouse, constructed between 1795 and 1799.
www.eofbc.org/ your-church/ history-of-the-east-otisfie.html
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First called Otis Field Plantation, it was incorporated on February 19, 1798 as Otisfield.
www.wikipedia.org
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1854 - Otisfield
Otisfield, a post-township in Cumberland co., Maine, 25 miles S. S. W. from Augusta. Population, 1171.
A New and Complete Gazetteer of the United States: Giving a Full and Comprehensive Review of the Present Condition, Industry, and Resources of the American Confederacy ... Thomas Baldwin (of Philadelphia.) Joseph Thomas January 1, 1854 Philadelphia : Lippincott, Grambo & Company 1854.
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1880 population of Otisfield - 927
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1886 - Otisfield
Otisfield is the most easterly of the northern towns of Cumberland County. Thompson’s Pond separates it from Poland in Androscoggin County and from... Read MORE...
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1895 - Otisfield
O'tisfield, a post-hamlet in Otisfield township, Cumberland co., Me, about 36 miles N.N.W. of Portland. It has a church. Pop. of the township, 1099.
Lippincott's Gazetteer of the World: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World Containing Notices of Over One Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand Places ... Joseph Thomas January 1, 1895 J.B. Lippincott
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1906
Otisfield, a post-village in Otisfield township (town), Cumberland co., Me., about 36 miles NNW. of Portland. Pop. of the town in 1900, 728.
Lippincott's New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns ... in Every Portion of the Globe Publisher J.B. Lippincott Company, 1906
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