Topsham (Bowdoin - Subject Guides )

Brunswick Region Resources

Topsham Fair broadside, late 19th century

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Charles Vaughan Family Papers, 1683-1908 (bulk 1773-1861)
Purinton family’s Brunswick and Topsham account books, 1740-1867, 10 vols. (M194 .P875 folio)
Topsham Library Society (M194, box 8, Topsham):
- constitution Jan. 22, 1793
- statute meeting, 1795, 1 folder
Topsham, First Parish Church records, Jun.18, 1796 (M194, box 8, folder Topsham)
Ezra Smith’s merchant ledger, 1797-1801, 1 vol. (M194 .S658 E9)
Topsham Artillery Company records, 1808-1843, 1 vol. (M194 .T677)
Nahum Perkins’s store daybook, 1828, 1843-1847, 1 vol. (M194 .P475 D3 folio)
Topsham Post Office records, 1849-1850, 1 vol. (M194 .T432 T6 folio)
Sagadahoc Agricultural & Horticultural Society finance returns, 1859-1860; premiums awarded, 1869; miscellaneous notes (M194, box 7, folder Sagadahoc)
Sagadahoc Agricultural & Horticultural Society members list, 1860, 1 vol. (M194 .S243 folio)
Kate Furbish Collection, 1870-1908
Robert Peter Tristram Coffin Collection, bulk 1910-1955
- “Tipsham Foreside” notebook – ideas for a collection of poems, unpublished (M37.5, box 139, folder 2)
- “Tipsham Foreside” characters notebook (M37.5, box 139, folder 2)
“The Emeralds and Topaz of Topsham, Maine,” by Benjamin B. Burbank, 1970, 1 vol. (M194 .B873 E4)
Dawson Papers on Unitarianism in Maine, 1817-1872: Topsham (M45, box 1, folder 14)
Ralph Owen Brewster Papers, 1909-1962
George J. Mitchell Papers, 1948-
Merrymeeting Audubon Society Records, 1969-1972
Topsham history scrapbook, 1 vol. (M194 .H557 T6)

Kennebec-River and Merrymeeting-Bay
Brunswick and Topsham, 1877 (view online) and 1910 (being reorganized from folio box and mapcase)