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   Genealogy Atlas has images of old American atlases during the years 1795, 1814, 1822, 1823, 1836, 1838, 1845, 1856, 1866, 1879 and 1897 for Maine and other states.
   You can view rotating animated maps for Maine showing all the county boundaries for each census year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries. You can view a list of maps for other states at Census Maps
   You can view rotating animated maps for Maine showing all the county boundary changes for each year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries . You can view a list of maps for other states and State Department of Transportation Maps at County Maps.

  Federal Population Schedules that exist for Maine are 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1890 (fragment, see below), 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930. Maine was part of the Massachusetts Census until the 1820 census. The 1800 censuses for some towns in Hancock and Kennebec indicate where the person resided before emigrating to Maine. A date of emigration is given for some of Kennebec although this was not consistently noted for Hancock. York County is incomplete on the 1800 census, half of Oxford County is missing in 1810, and Houlton Plantation returns are missing for Washington County, 1820.

  There are Industry and Agriculture Schedules availible for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Slave Schedules exist for 1850 & 1860. The Mortality Schedules for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. Union Veterans Schedules were conducted in 1890.

  State Schedules: Parts of Maine, as well as ports of Massachusetts, participated in the direct tax census for 1798 which records landowners, renters, land and title boundaries, acreage, dwellings, value, and tax due. It can substitute for what is missing in the 1800 census. What survives is on microfilm with a printed inventory at the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Maine State Archives.

In 1837 a state census was taken but only Bangor, Portland, and unincorporated towns enumerations of heads of households survive on microfilm at Maine State Archives. The Maine Historical Society holds a volume enumerating the town of Elliot.

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