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"The town of Waterford is the oldest of this group of towns, located among the Oxford county hills, between the valleys of the Androscoggin and Saco rivers. In 1735 a grant of land was made to John Whitman and others, soldiers or heirs of soldiers who had fought in a company from Middlesex and Worcester counties under Capt. Andrew Gardner in the Canadian Expedition of 1690. This tract was the sixth in the line of towns granted to the Suncook proprietors, so called, and became known as Todds-town, or Number 6, now Henniker, N.H.. When, in 1739, the King of England established the present boundary as the line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, this with many other grants were found to lie within the bounds of the latter state which destroyed the validity of titles given by the Commonwealth of Massachusettes. Under date of Feb. 26, 1774 the proprietors of Todds-town, having lost all title to their lands and improvements, petitioned the General Court of Massachusettes for the grant of another township to replace their forfeited lands. This petition was signed by John Gardiner, Stephen Maynard and Seth Rice, and resulted in the granting of a township seven miles square, 'adjoining some former grant east of the Saco river'. The proprietors were to settle thirty families within six years, and to lay out one-sixty-fourth part for the use of each the first settled minister, the grammer school, and Harvard College.
Steps were immediately taken to lay out the township, an outline map of which was left with the Secretary of State in Boston the following May. Such was the origin of Waterford. In the survey an allowance of one rod in thirty was made for sway of chain, and 2,500 acres for ponds. The lot and range lines were run the following summer by Jabez Brown of Stow, Mass. and Col. Joseph Frye of Pequawkett (Fryeburg), with eleven assistants, and the township was thrown open to settlement."
Taken from 'THE TOWN REGISTER' ....Waterford, Albany, Greenwood, E. Stoneham ....1906 ....Compiled by Mitchell and Davis

Waterford PAST and Waterford TODAY!

Cumberland County 1790 Census for Waterford Plantation
SOURCE="Heads of Families-Maine. Page 25 - Column B"

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Jewet, Stephen ........................

Green, Tho^s..............................

Warren, Sam^l...........................

Gates, Wll^m..............................

Johnson, Asa............................

Orr, Phillip................................

Bryant, Richard........................

Sampson, Phineas.....................

Whitcomb, David......................

Chamberlain, John....................

Longley, Ely..............................

Brown, Silas.............................

Brown, Thaddeus.....................

Chamberlain, Ephraim............

Russ, John...............................

Whitney, Phineas....................

Stickney, Jon^a.......................

Homan, Jonas.........................

M^cWane, David......................

Longley, Jon^a.........................

Hamblen, Africa.......................

Hamblen, America...................

Jewel, Ezra..............................

Hale, Israel..............................

Hapgood, Oliver......................

Robbins, Jon^a........................

Hale, Oliver.............................

Gibson, Jacob.........................

Barker, Daniel.........................

Holland, John..........................

Brown, Asaph.........................

Houghton, Jon^a.....................

Jewel, John..............................

Saunderson, Stephen...............

Chamberlain, Nath^l..................

Hale, Benjⁿ............................

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York County 1790 Census for Waterford Town
SOURCE="Heads of Families-Maine. Page 69 - Column B"

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Sanderson, Stephen..................

Barker, Joseph.........................

Holton, Jonathan......................

Jewel, John..............................

Brown,Asaph..........................

Bryant, Richard.......................

Robbins, Jonathan...................

Jewet, Stephen........................

Green, Thom^s........................

Gates, William.........................

Johnson, Asa..........................

Hor, Phillip..............................

Sampson, Phinehas.................

Langley, Eli.............................

Brown, Silas...........................

Brown, Thaddeus....................

Chamberlain, Ephraim.............

Nurse, John............................

Homan, James........................

M^cWane, David.......................

Langley, Jonathan...................

Atherington, John....................

Hamlin, Africa........................

Hamlin, America....................

Jewel, Ezra............................

Hale, Oliver...........................

Hale, Isreal............................

Hapgood, Oliver...................

Whitney, Joshua....................

Whitney, Phinehas.................

Chamberlain, Nath^l.............

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Definitions:
[Name] = Name of Head of Family
[FWM 16+] = Free White Males of 16 years and upward including heads of families
[FWM 16-] = Free White Males under 16 years
[FWF] = Free White Females including heads of families

LINKS:
Old Cumberland County Towns
USGenWeb Project
Maine USGenWeb Project
Maine Genealogy Project
Oxford County Resource Board
Charles Farrar Browne (Artemus Ward) Courtesy of RootsWeb

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