Mason, Oxford County, Maine Genealogy

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Mason is an extinct town, now an unorganized territory (township) in the South Oxford townships of Oxford County, Maine. Mason was organized as a town from part of Batchelders Grant in 1843.[1] In 1913 Mason annexed the remainder of the Fryeburg Academy Grant Plantation not already part of Stoneham. Mason's town status was surrendered in 1935, at which time it became unorganized territory.[2] [3] [4]

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References[edit | edit source]

  1. Michael J. Leclerc, Genealogist's Handbook for New England Research, 5th ed. (Boston, Mass.: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012), 153. At various libraries (WorldCat); FS Library Book 974 D27g 2012.
  2. Maine Historical Records Survey Project, Division of Professional and Service Projects, Work Projects Administration, Counties, Cities, Towns, and Plantations of Maine: a Handbook of Incorporations, Dissolutions, and Boundary Changes (Portland, Maine: The Survey, 1940), 165 (digital p. 174). A digital version is available via a link in the FamilySearch Catalog.
  3. Legal History of Fryeburg Academy Plantation, Maine in Maine Genealogy (accessed 5 November 2013).
  4. Mason, Oxford County, Maine in Maine Genealogy (accessed 5 November 2013).