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• Canaan Queries and Genealogical Databases
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• Information on Mailing Lists
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Canaan Data & Photos

• A Little Background Information on Canaan
• Barrett Park in Canaan
• Data on Canaan People
  • Capt. Joseph Barrett  (Joseph Barrrett, Sr.)
  • Hon. Joseph Barrett (Joseph Barrett, Jr.)
  • Roger Chase
  • Charles Loring Dickey and (Effie) Etta (Estes) Dickey
  • Abiathar Kendall
  • Jeremiah Joy
  • George Lewis
  • David Nason
  • Elisha Nason
  • John Nason
  • William Nason
  • John Oaks
  • Edward Ramsdell
  • William Rand
  • Tristram Ricker
  • Collection of Data on Canaan People: Adrastus Combs Warren
  • Joseph Weston
  • Solomon Whidden married Esther Goodwin
• Canaan Cemeteries
  • Old Village Cemetery
  • New Village Cemetery
  • Tobey Cemetery
  • Walker Cemetery
  • Salsbury Cemetery -- enumeration and pictures submitted by Sonya Sharkey
  • Brown's Corner (aks Slab City) Cemetery
  • Fairview Cemetery
• Canaan Census Records
  • 1790 Canaan, Lincoln County, ME Census
  • 1800 Canaan, Kennebec County, ME Census
  • 1810 Canaan, Somerset County, ME Census
  • 1820 Canaan, Somerset County, ME Census
  • 1830 Canaan, Somerset County, ME Census
  • 1850 Canaan, Somerset County, ME Census
  • 1880 Canaan, Somerset County, ME Census
  • Some Tips About Census Data on Canaan
• Canaan Military Records
  • Persons involved in the Rev. War who lived in Canaan
  • Civil War Soldiers
  • Spanish War Soldiers
• Canaan Obituaries
  • Lucetta J. Barrett Obituary
  • Peter S. Holt Obituary
  • Ivory Lowe Obituary
• Canaan Photo Gallery
  • The Library
  • Town Office
  • Lake George
  • Main Street Canaan:  Then and Now
  • Canaan Grange
  • Old photo of the Canaan Grange
  • View of Elm Street
  • Canaan, ME Post Office
  • Horse and Buggy
  • Ralph's Inn
  • Horses in Canaan
  • Stone Dam, Carabasset Stream
  • Old Village Cemetery
  • New Village Cemetery
  • Tobey Cemetery
  • Walker Cemetery
  • Salisbury Cemetery
  • Family Data and Photos
    • Dickey Family Photo: Family reunion in August of 1914
    • Charles Gifford and Mary Ann Osborn Gifford
  • Canaan Postcards
    • 1905 Main Street, Canaan -- Gus Nelson to Miss Etta M. Nelson
    • 1906 Lake George, Canaan -- Gus Nelson to Miss Etta M. Nelson
  • Old School Pictures
    • Primary School in Canaan
    • An old school picture
    • A older school picture
    • Canaan, ME High School, June 1916 -- identified
    • Canaan, ME High School Building
• Canaan as part of Lincoln County (Canaan was in Lincoln Co. from its beginning to 1799)
  • Probate Records of Lincoln County, ME, 1760 TO 1800
  • Marriages Solemnized by Oliver Wood
  • Transcription of 1790 Canaan, Lincoln County, Maine census
• Early Midwives in the Canaan area
• Nana's Scrapbook
  • Brown's Corner, Canaan, 1891
  • Deaths in Canaan, 1892
  • T.R. Owes This Family a Cup (Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dickey)
  • Serious Fire at Canaan Tuesday
  • Mrs. Cordelia Reed: the First Woman to Visit the Wilds of Northern Maine
  • Maine Woman, 97, Still Active and Enjoys Doing Work at Home (Mrs. Tracie Buzzell, widow of Elijah Buzzell)
  • It Really Has Been Cold
  • Fifty-five Years Married (Mr. and Mrs. Alfred P. Austin)
  • 67th Anniversary of Mr. & Mrs. Rufus B. Williams
  • Lancaster Family Reunion
• Religion in Canaan
  • Canaan Clergy
    • Parson Ezekiel Emerson First Minister of Canaan 1777-1783 (Presbyterian)
    • Rev. Nathaniel Whitaker 1784-1789 (Presbyterian)
    • Rev. Jonathan Calef 1794-1801 (Congregational)
    • Elder Mephibosheth Cain 1796 (the Baptist Church in Clinton to 1803)
    • Rev. John Cayford 1809-1812 (Congregationalist and then Baptist)
    • Rev. Joseph Merrill 1811-1849 (Christian Church)
    • Rev. Fifield Holt 1814- (Congregational)
    • Rev. Sylvanus Cobb 1823- (Universalist)
• Canaan Vital Records
  • Lincoln County Marriages by Oliver Wood, Esq.
  • Early Canaan Marriages recorded in the Town Records
  • Canaan Marriage Records before 1892 -- from the Cards at the Maine State Archives (note not all marriages are currently available)
  • 1849 List of Persons older than 50 who died in Canaan from "History of the old towns, Norridgewock and Canaan . . ."
  • Deaths in Canaan, 1892
  • Serious Fire at Canaan Tuesday (Dr. Lester William Shean drops dead)
  • Deaths in Canaan Vital Records, 1815 - 1891 (from the Town Records)
• The East Somerset County Register
  • Historical Sketch of Canaan
  • Incorporation
  • Masons
  • Items of Interest
  • Early Town Officials
  • Civil War Soldiers & Spanish War Soldiers
• The Kennebec Valley -- Skowhegan (originally Canaan)
• Sprague Journal of Maine History
  • Ancestry of the Stewarts -- Early Settlers of Howardstown, Canaan, Bloomfield, Skowhegan
• "History of the Old Towns . . ."
  • The Kennebec River
  • Canaan Town Clerks and Town Treasurers, 1784-1825
  • Canaan Moderators and Representatives, 1783-1825
  • Some information on the Early Settlers in Canaan
  • 1849 List of Persons older than 50 who died in Canaan
• Clinton Old Home Week, 1921
  • 1921 List of Canaan Residents who were Former Residents of Clinton, ME