First Town Meeting House 1847
Part of Greene & Webster to Lewiston 1852
The Greenback Party 1880
Sabattusville Divided in Three Parts 1826-1895
The NE Boundary Dispute (Lewiston-Webster) 1882
Proposed annexation to Lewiston 1875 & 1895
Part of Lewiston set off to Webster 1895
Part of Greene set off to Webster 1895
Life in Sabattus During WWI: Food Conservation
The Cottagers Question: The Need for Secession 1953
Proposed annexation to Lewiston ME 1964
Police Dept
Name Changed to Sabattus 1971
Annexation of part of Wales to Sabattus 1979

Chapter 3 Topography of Webster:

Ross Brook
Dirty Brook
Thorpe Brook
Noname Pond Stream
McCackney Pond
Round Pond
Loon Pond
Sutherland's Pond
Springs
Curtis Bog
Lake Sabattus
Mt Sabattus
Robinson Mt
Pettengill Hill
Jordan Hill
Hedgehog Hill
Oak Hill

Geology of Webster:

Gneiss & Iron
Gravel
Alluvium
Clay

Chapter 4 Settlers

First Colonists
Robert Ross, the first settler
The Oldest Davis House
Davis Settlement
Settlers before 1788
Settlers 1788-1793
Settlers 1793-1802
American Revolutionary Afro-Americans
Some Settlers After 1800
Old timers living in Webster 1873
First Magistrate
Physicians
Lawyers
Seamen
Mrs Jerome Bonaparte
1849 Gold Rush

Chapter 5 Military History

French & Indian War
American Revolution
War of 1812
Bowdoin's Militia Co Slits
Aroostook War of 1839
Mexican War 1846-1848
Soldiers of the Civil War 1860-1865
The Battle at Sabattus 1861
Spanish American War

Chapter 6 Education

Schools
First Teachers
Early School Districts
Writing School in 1899
First Library
Distinguished Men
Public Health

Chapter 7 Business & Commerce

First Newspaper Taken in Town
First Local Newspaper of Sabattus
Post-Office
Early Values
Taverns, Hotels and First Street Lights
Wagons & Chaises
Blacksmith Shops
Horse Trading
Sabattus Expresses
Ketchum's Mowing Machine
Hay scale
Lewiston-Sabattus Express
Telephone
Sabattus Drinking Water
Alexander G Clapper

Chapter 8 Organizations

Religious Societies
Baptist
High St Baptist
Old Hooper Meeting House
A Baptist Story
Universalist & Baptist
Universalist
Sandfordites
Spirtualists
The Seventh Day Adventist
The Friends Society
Free Will Baptist
Methodist
Catholic Parish
Advent Christian
Veteran Monument Committee
Sabattus Boy Scouts
Daughters of American Revolution
Masonic Lodges
Temple of the Pythian Sisters
Knights of Pythias
American Legion Post 135
Boy Scouts of America develop Camp Gustin
The Sabattus Lake Assocation
Sabattus Brass Band 1890
Webster Grange P of H # 91

Chapter 9 Manufacturing & Transportation

Rail Service
Water Power
Bang's Grain Store
Sabattus Woolen Mills
Sutherland's Pond Water Power
Public Highways
Southwest Bend Ferry
Great Freshet of 1839
Flood of 1846
Tornado in Maine 1892
Auto Roads
Shoe & Boot Shops

Chapter 10 Landmarks, Farming & Related Industries

Sabattus Village
Mining
Sabattus Ice Co
Farming
Androscoggin Agricultural Society
Sugar Cane
The GI Farming School
The Orchards & Creameries
Willow Pond Orchard
Temple Flats
The Davis Settlement
Southwest Webster
Webster Corner
Northwest Webster
West Webster
Central Webster
The Fisher Farm at Ross Brook
Drinkwater Corner
East Webster
Gypsies
Summer People
Barnum's Circus
KKK
One Dozen Napkins

Chapter 11 Indian Lore

Chief Sabattus
Molly Ockett
Devil's Den

Chapter 12 Sports Shorts

Chapter 13 Liquors & the Prohibitory Law

Androscoggin Jail log 1857-1879
Sabattus Temperance Union
Reynolds Steam-Power Co

Chapter 14 The Fire Department and Fires

Chapter 15 Wild Game and the Hunters

The Sabattus Eagle
The Sabattus Panther
Early French-Canadian Fisherman

Chapter 16 Family Genealogies

Appendices
A Freewill Baptist Pew List
B Wales Vital Records
C List of Town Officers 1788-1992
D Moore's Saw Mill 1833
E WW One Veterans
F WW Two Veterans
G Korea Veterans
H Vietnam Veterans
I Civil War Soldiers of Webster
J Selected Lincoln Co Jail Records 1802-1855
K Maine Militia - Fourth Reg - Angroscoggin County
L 4-F Angroscoggin & Kennebec Co Men 1862
M Webster Police Department 1860 - 1991

List of Works Index Abbreviations

ACM Androscoggin County Commissioner Marriage Records 1850-1860

AHS Androscoggin Historical Society, Auburn, ME

bro/o Brother of C& Clear & Pleasant Weather

d/o daughter of GH Mower's History of Greene, ME

HM Cochrane's History of Monmouth,

ME int Intention of marriage

LMH Elder's Lewiston, Maine History 1989

LEJ Lewiston Evening Journal m married

MHS Maine Historical Society

MSA Maine State Archives

N.M.H. North Meeting House (Lewiston, ME)

pub Published Q Quaker Quarterly Meeting Records-Androscoggin/Kennebec Co

s/o son of

s/in/l son in law

sis/o sister of

S.M.H. South Meeting House (Lewiston, ME)

UNM unmarried

W.A.S.P. White Anglo-Saxon Protestant

WID/O widow of State

Abbreviations are those currently in use by the United States Postal Service.

Special thanks to David C. Young for providing this file.

Elizabeth (Keene) Young David Colby Young PO Box 152 Danville, Maine 04223

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