Genealogical Resources (Bowdoin

Genealogical Resources

Lyman Abbott Family, Abbott Memorial Collection

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This guide provides genealogists with a broad,cursory outline of genealogical resources available in Special Collections & Archives. This list does not include material available in the circulating collections of the Library. Please consult the online catalog for further information on these works.

Many items sometimes used by genealogists are not mentioned within the detailed list; for the most part, these were not specific or involved too many family or individual names to be included. Descriptions of some of the more general sources, including those in the Bowdoin College Archives, precede the detailed list.

General Resources

General Holdings

Alumni Biographical Files: Biographical folders kept by the College on its alumni. Files on deceased alumni of Bowdoin College through the Class of 1938 and of the Medical School of Maine are housed in the Bowdoin College Archives. You may wish to begin your search by verifying a connection to Bowdoin using one of the General Catalogues of the College.
McArthur Pension Cases: Military pension cases administered by two Maine agents, Arthur and William McArthur of Limington, cover most of the 19th century and include records of Maine veterans from the Revolutionary War to the Indian campaigns in the west. The container list, which names all pensioners, and an index of claimants is available to in-house patrons.

Artillery Company Records: Records of the Monmouth Artillery Company cover 1810 to 1841, and those of the Topsham Artillery Company are from 1808 to 1843.

Family Papers: The papers of Maine families, as well as those from other areas of the northeast, are housed in Special Collections. Many, among them the Bowdoin, Fessenden, Hale, Howard, Hubbard and King families, contain correspondence, diaries, documents and historical material relating to several generations. Those that include specific genealogical files are identified in the family name index.

Church Records: Records, most original manuscripts, relating to Maine churches.

Land Records: The records of the lands once owned by the College, including the Bowdoin/Bowdoinham area and parts of the Seventh Range, are held by the Bowdoin College Archives as part of the records of the Office of the Treasurer. They include information on land sales and distributions, squatters and legal disputes. Other material can be found in the Records of the Governing Boards and the administrative papers of the early Bowdoin presidents.

Index to Family Names

A-D, E-H, I-L, M-P, Q-T, U-Z

Family Name	Location
Abbott	Abbott Memorial Collection (M1) Boxes 13-14 and volumes, Biographical records Box 16, Documents, essays, and ephemera
Apthorp	Abbott Memorial Collection (M1) Apthorp volumes
Anderson	Special Collections Stacks Memoir of John Farwell Anderson (College CS:B666 M53)
[ Arundel, Maine]	Joseph Fessenden Sermons (M61) Box 1, Marriages in ..., 1820-1829
Baker	see "Hubbard" Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection
Barnes	Special Collections Stacks McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines (NZ2: M116 M12 1964)
Barrett	see "Hubbard"
Barrows	see "Shepley"
Bartlett	Special Collections Stacks Forefathers and Descendants of Willard & Genevieve Wilson Bartlett (NZ2: B280 F71 1952)
Batchelor	see "Vaughan"
Bates	Arlo Bates Papers (M9) Boxes 2 and 6-8, Ephemera, genealogy folders
Baudouin	see "Bowdoin"
Bickford	see "Hubbard"
Bordroyne	see "Bowdoin"
Bowdoin, Bowden	Bowdoin Collection (M15) Boxes 1-2, Genealogical notes Boxes 2-3, William Bowden Genealogical Notes Alpheus Spring Packard Papers (M142) Box 2, Bowdoin Family Notes Special Collections Stacks An Account of the Temple Family (CS71.T285 1856) Baudouin Bowdoin Genealogy (CS71.B785 2000z) The Bowdoin Family: Being a Short Sketch... (LD553.B694 1950) The Bowdoin Family: Including Some Account... (CS71.B7852 2000) Bowdoin Family in the United States (CS71.B785 1982) Some Account of the Bowdoin Family (CS71.B785 1982b)
Bradford	see "Harris"
Brainerd	Special Collections Stacks Ancestry of Thomas Chalmers Brainerd (NZ2: B816 A53 1948)
Burleigh, Burley	see "Bowdoin"
Carleton	see "Hubbard"
Chadbourne, Chadbourn	Special Collections Stacks Chadbourne-Chadbourn Genealogy (College: CS:E533 C42)
Chandler	see "Cleaveland"
Chisholm	Special Collections Stacks The Clan Chisholm and Allied Clans (NZ2: T529 C54 1935 folio)
Cilley	Special Collections Stacks The Cilley Genealogy (College FM2: C572 C57)
Clark	Special Collections Stacks Deacon George Clark(e) of Milford, Connecticut (NZ2: B915 D27 1949) Mellen Family Papers (M129.2) Box 1, Clark Family
Cleaveland	Cleaveland-Chandler Papers (M35) Box 3 and volumes, Family records
Coan	Elisha Coan Papers (M36) Box 1, Documents, letters, and biographical Information
Coffin	Miscellaneous Manuscript Collection (M194.2) Box 2, Coffin Robert Peter Tristam Coffin Collection (M37) Boxes 197-198, Family history
Coney	Special Collections Stacks The Parentage and English Progenitors of Nathaniel Cony of Boston, Mass. (CS71.C748 1906) A Brief Study in Genealogy (CS: W724 C74)
Connin	see "Coney"
Conny, Cony	see "Coney"
Cooke	see "Harris"
Crozier	Special Collections Stacks Crozier Family, One Branch descended from James Crozier (NZ2: F767 C95 1979)
Curtis	William John Curtis Papers (M41) Box 1, Biographical information Curtis Family of Maine Genealogy (M42)
Davis	Special Collections Stacks Ancestry of Nicholas Davis ... of Limington, Maine (CS71.H168 1988)
Fairchild	Fairchild Papers (M56) Box 1, Genealogy
Fairfield	see "Vaughan"
Farrington	Special Collections Stacks Farrington Memorial (NZ2: F246 F24 1880)
Fessenden	Fessenden Collection (M59) Boxes 16-17, Biographical records, genealogies, and family history Fessenden Genealogical Collection (M62)
Foote	Stetson Collection on Wiscasset Shipping Families (M171) Box 1 and folio box E, Foote Family
Foulke	Special Collections Stacks Foulke Family : One Branch Descended from James Ffookes (NZ2: F767 F78 1972)
Gallup	Special Collections Stacks Gallup Genealogy (NZ2: G175 G18 1966)
Gardiner	see "Vaughan"
Gilbert	Special Collections Stacks The Gilbert Family : Descendants of Thomas Gilbert ... of Mt. Woolaston (NZ2: B814 G46 1953)
Godfrey	Alumni Biographical Files under Godfrey, Noah, n1848
Gould	John Gould Collection (M75) Box 1, Biographical materials
Gray	Manuscript volumes under Howard
Green	Miscellaneous Pamphlets under Green, Percival and Ellen
Greenleaf	Special Collections Stacks A Genealogy of the Greenleaf Family (CT: G814 G32)
Grinnell	Special Collections Stacks Ancestry of the Grinnell Family (College CS: E533 A5 1931)
Hale	see "King" Special Collections Stacks Hale, House, and Related Families, mainly of the Connecticut River Valley (NZ2: J178 H16 1952)
Haley	Special Collections Stacks Thomas Haley of Winter Harbor, and his Descendants (NZ2: D266 H16 1930)
Hallowell	see "Vaughan"
Harris	Special Collections Stacks The Ancestry of Bethia Harris ... Wife of Dudley Wildes of Topsfield, Massachusetts (NZ2: D266 H31 1934) Josiah Harris ... East Machias, Maine : His Ancestors and Descendants in Nine Generations (College CS: H313 H31)
Harthorn, Hathorne	Special Collections Stacks Hathorn/Harthorn : the Ancestors and Descendants of William Hathorn of Cushing, Maine (CS: C637 H36)
Harward	Mellen Family Papers (M129) Box 1, Harward Family
Haskell	Manuscript Volumes under Haskell
Hawkins	Mellen Family Papers (M129) Box 2, Hawkins Family
Hildreth	Special Collections Stacks The Ancestry of Sarah Hildreth ... wife of Amis Spear of Litchfield, Maine (NZ2: D266 H64 1958)
House	see "Hale"
Howard	Rowland Bailey Howard Papers (M92) Box 1, Family and biographical material Manuscript Volumes under Howard
Hubbard	Hubbard Family Papers (M95) Box 17, Genealogical and family material
Isaac	Special Collections Stacks The Ancestry of Mary Isaac ... Wife of Thomas Appleton of Little Waldingfield (NZ2: D266 I73 1955)
Johnson	Special Collections Stacks The Ancestry of Sarah Johnson ... Wife of Joseph Neal of Litchfield, Maine (NZ2: D266 J69 1960)
Jones	see "Harris"
King	Hale-King Papers (M81) Box 2, Miscellaneous (folder labeled "Ephemera" includes Ancestral Table of Rufus King)
Kingsford	Bowdoin Family Collection (M15) Box 1, Genealogical materials
Lakin	Miscellaneous Pamphlets under Lakin Family
Larsen	Special Collections Stacks Larsen and Uggerby Families (NZ2: F767 L33 1977)
[ Lebanon, Maine]	Miscellaneous Pamphlets under Lebanon, ME
Little	Little Family Papers (M108) Boxes 1-3, Documents & legal papers
Longfellow	Special Collections Stacks Genealogy of the Longfellow Family (PS: L853.3 G32 1898) A Longfellow Genealogy (CS71.L853 2002)
Lunt	Special Collections Stacks The Ancestry of Abel Lunt ... of Newbury, Massachusetts (NZ2: D266 L96 1963)
Manley	Mellen Family Papers (M129.2) Box 2, Manley Family
McArthur	McArthur Papers (M116) Box 8 and volumes, Ephemera and miscellaneous material Special Collections Stacks McArthur-Barnes Ancestral Lines (NZ2: M116 M12 1964)
MacDonald, McDonald	Alumni Pamphlets under MacDonald, Angus
McFadden	Manuscript Volumes under McFadden
Mellen	Mellen Family Papers (129.1) Box 1, Mellen Family material
Mower	Special Collections Stacks Mower Family History (NZ2: M939 M94 1923) Manuscript Volumes under Mower Miscellaneous Manuscripts under Mower
Neal	Special Collections Stacks The Ancestry of Joseph Neal ... of Litchfield, Maine (NZ2: D266 N34 1945)
Nichols	Special Collections Stacks James Nichols of Searsport and His Descendants (NZ2: N617 J28 1944)
[ North Yarmouth, Maine]	Miscellaneous Pamphlets under North Yarmouth, ME
Noyes	George Boardman Noyes Papers (141) Box 1, Genealogical information
Parker	John C. Parker Papers (M143) Box 2 and volumes, Family papers
Patterson	Patterson Papers (M144) Records of ... Benjamin Patterson Family
Perley	see "Shepley"
Pierce	Edward Allen Pierce Papers (M147) Box 4, Pierce Family
Pitts	see "Bowdoin"
Prentis	see "Bowdoin"
Quincy	Miscellaneous Pamphlets under Quincy Family
Reade	see "Harris"
Ruck	see "Hubbard"
Sandell	see "Harris"
Sargeant	see "Shepley"
Scroggs	see "Harris"
Sewall	Mellen Family Papers (M129.2) Box 2, Sewall Family Special Collections Stacks Thomas Sewall : Some of His Ancestors and All of His Descendants (College FM2: S513 T46 1904)
Shepley	Shepley Papers (M162) Boxes 1-2, Genealogical material
Spear	Special Collections Stacks The Ancestry of Annis Spear ... of Litchfield, Maine (NZ2: D266 S74 1945)
Stone	Special Collections Stacks The Ancestry of Sarah Stone, Wife of James Patten of Arundel ... Maine (NZ2: D266 S88 1930)
Temple	see "Bowdoin" Special Collections Stacks An Account of the Temple Family (CS71.T285 1856)
Ten Broeck	Special Collections Stacks General Abraham Ten Broeck (College CS: J125 G32)
Thacher	Alumni Pamphlets under Thacher, Peter
Towne	Special Collections Stacks The Ancestry of Liuet. Amos Towne ... of Arundel ... Maine (NZ2: D266 T74 1927)
Uggerby	see "Larsen"
Upton	Upton Family Papers (M179) Box 1, Genealogy
Vaughan	Charles Vaughan Papers (M180) Boxes 1-5, Correspondence Vaughan Family Research Files (M293) Box 1, Genealogical charts, correspondence and miscellaneous Abbott Memorial Collection (M1) OS volume, Correspondence Box 14 and volumes, Biographical records
Wadsworth	see "Vaughan"
Wells	see "Vaughan"
Weston	Miscellaneous Pamphlets under Weston, Hannah
Wildes	Special Collections Stacks The Ancestry of Dudley Wildes ... of Topsfield, Massachusetts (NZ2: D266 W67 1959)
Winthrop	see "Bowdoin"
Wood	Stetson Collection on Wiscasset Shipping Families (M171.2) Box 2, Wood Family