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From Ava Harriet Chadboure in her 1957 edition of "Maine Place Names and the Peopling of Its Towns," published by the Bond Wheelwright Company, she describes the town as follows: "Incorporated 1816, the town of Weld is a broad plain like valley and forming the middle portion of the town encloses Webb's Pond, from which the plantation name, Webb's Pond Plantation, came." It was formerly known as plantation No. 5 and is bounded by the towns of Avon, Wilton, Temple, Carthage and Byron."
Certainly there are many who are far more intimately acquainted with the town
and indeed more qualified to speak on it's history, but to date no one
else has stepped forward. To the credit of its townspeople and the life forged
here, my grandfather spoke lovingly and often of his growing up and ancestral
history in Weld. And, although I am a non-native, here's my crack at telling the
story. This site is dedicated to Dorothy Swett Winter. -ajwatson
Early Settlers of Weld,
chronicled in the Maine Historical and Genealogical
Register
First
Families of Weld, from a document at the Weld Historical Society
Some Civil War Soldiers of Northwestern Maine (from Weld and the surrounding towns)
NEW! Center Hill Cemetery
Mountain
View Cemetery
Robertson
Cemetery
Sinnett Cemetery (Government Beach)
Webster-Masterman
Cemetery
Census Schedules
(I am currently working on transcribing both the 1850 and 1880 schedules for
the
town.
I have copies of the
Weld town census from 1820 to 1930. If you have a lookup request, please
contact me at
[email protected])
Local contacts for town data
Weld, and the Boston Post Cane
The
Family Tree of Stanton Laforest Swett
NEW! McLaughlin and Irish Family History
(courtesy of Chris Null)
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