Bucksport is a town in Hancock County, settled in 1762 and incorporated on June 27, 1792 as the town of Buckstown from Buckstown Plantation. Its name was changed to Bucksport on June 12, 1817.
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A Survey of Hancock County, Maine By Samuel Wasson 1876: Bucksport.—Incorporated (9-79 town) June 27, 1792. Population, 3,433. Decennary loss, 121. Wealth, per capita, $360. State valuation, $1,219,881. U. S. valuation, $1,756,628. This was township No. 1, in the grant to Marsh. It was incorporated as Buckstown, and was not changed to Bucksport till 1817. The township was surveyed by William Chamberlain, in 1762. Col. Jonathan Buck, from Haverhill, Mass., commenced the first settlement in 1764. For him the town was named. The next year Laugh- lin McDonald and his son Roderick, took up lots. In 1766-7, Asahel Harriman, Jonathan Frye, Benjamin Page, Phineas Ames, and Ebenezer Buck came. The first preacher was Rev. John Kenney, in 1795. First settled minister, Rev. Mighill Blood, in 1803. In 17— the British burnt a part of the town. The post office established in 1799. About 1804 the Gazette of Maine was printed. In 1806, "Penobscot Bank" was established, and continued six years. The ill- treatment which the inhabitants received from the British in 1776-7-8, drove many families away, and they employed Indian guides to pilot them through the woods to Kennebec. Some of them returned in 1784. Union soldiers, 419; State aid, $7,345; town bounty, $56.618 ; cost per recruit, $150 |