Source Information

Ancestry.com. Jay, Franklin County, Maine History [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004.
Original data: Lawrence, Benjamin F.. History of Jay, Franklin County, Maine. Boston, MA, USA: Griffith-Stillings, 1912.

About Jay, Franklin County, Maine History

This database is a history of the town of Jay, located in Franklin County, Maine. Topics of this history include topography, Indians, early history of the township, settlements, military history, industries, churches, schools, sketches of some of the prominent citizens, and genealogies of some of the local families. It was the author's intent to provide a true account of the early settlement and genealogy of the early settlers and their descendants for the first and second generations, together with the manners and customs of those days (p. iii).

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